Picture "View of the Murnauer Moos" (1908), framed
Picture "View of the Murnauer Moos" (1908), framed
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limited, 1,000 copies | facsimile print on handmade paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 56 x 64 cm (h/w)
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Picture "View of the Murnauer Moos" (1908), framed
The artist was impressed by the picturesque location of the village on a hill situated above the Murnauer Moos, in the foothills of the Alps, and the intense colours of the brightly painted houses of the village. The strongly luminous, flat and unmixed colours placed next to each other and an area-like application of paint are striking.
5-colour facsimile print on 270g Rives handmade paper. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Framed in a silver solid wood frame with passe-partout, glazed. Size 56 x 64 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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About Gabriele Münter
1877-1962
Gabriele Münter was an Expressionist painter and a member of the New Munich Artists' Association but did not belong to the Blaue Reiter movement.
Gabriele Münter became known as Wassily Kandinsky's companion. She saved a significant part of his works through the war and post-war period and later made them known to the public, together with paintings by artist friends of the Blaue Reiter and her own works.
When Gabriele Münter bought a house in Murnau in 1909, which she lived in during the summer with her partner Kandinsky, the idyllically situated domicile soon developed into a centre of the avant-garde. Marc, Macke and Werefkin, Jawlensky were regular guests. They all found much inspiration for their artistic work in the area around the Staffelsee – art history likes to describe these years surrounding the founding of the Blaue Reiter as the "Murnau period".
With the beginning of the First World War and the separation from Kandinsky, turbulent years followed for Münter. In 1931, she moved to Murnau for good. The landscape in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps plays a major role in her work from this period, as it did at the beginning of the century. When Münter died in Murnau in 1962, she had long been considered, along with Paula Modersohn-Becker, the most important Expressionist painter.
The German artists‘ association "Der Blaue Reiter" ("The Blue Rider") was founded in 1911 in Munich by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc during the German Expressionist period.
The name was originally the title of a painting by Kandinsky and also the title of the almanac published by Kandinsky and Marc. Members included Paul Klee and August Macke, among others. The group criticised the prevailing art canon as too academic and elitist, demanding more openness and diversity. The artists turned away from realism and began to paint expressively in an increasingly abstract style using strong colours.
The group disbanded at the beginning of World War I.
Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, with its precursors found in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The expressionists sought to reach the fundamental elements of painting. Using vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas, emphasising lines, and aiming for suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke": Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.
Latin: "to make alike".
Largely faithful reproduction of an original, such as an old manuscripts and codices. (Facsimile edition).