Gabriele Munter (1877-1962)
 

Munter was born in Berlin in the prosperous and educated family. Her parents died early in every way supported her desire to become an artist. She loved to draw since childhood, and first took private lessons, and then, in 1897, was admitted to the Higher Women hudozhestvevnnuyu school Lyusseldorfe (Academy of Fine Arts was then closed to women). After returning from a two-year visit to the United States, in 1901, she settled down to live in Munich, she continued her studies by attending and female hudozhestvevnnuyu school, and at the same time the school called the Phalanx, which is based Wassily Kandinsky. We Munter and Kandinsky began an affair, and soon they settled down together (in 1911, Kandinsky officially divorced his first wife, but their relationships are not legislated).

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In 1904, with Kandinsky, they traveled to France, the Netherlands and Italy. In Paris, she saw the work of Matisse, potyasshie her, met by Matisse and Henri Rousseau.
In 1909 she bought a small summer house in Murnau on Staffelsee. There they lived with Kandinsky, the house was always full of the Munich avant-garde artists. In "Russian house" stayed Jawlensky, Marianne Verevkina, Franz Marc, August Macke, composer and painter Arnold Schoenberg.

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Together with Kandinsky, Marc and Alfred Kubin Munter took an active part in creating the "Blue rider", they formed the core of the new group. It is one of the exhibitions of the work Munter were seen - it was the first of its success.
At the beginning of the First World aoyny Kandinsky was forced to leave Germany. First they went to Switzerland Munter, Kandinsky, but then decided to return to Russia, and Munter, first moved to Stockholm, and then, at the end of 1917, in Copenhagen. .
In 1917 Kandinsky was married, and all communication between them broke off.

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In the early 1920's. Munter returned to Germany, she lived then in Cologne, then in Munich, spent summers in Murnau. At this time she suffered from depression and almost did not work. In 1925 she moved to Berlin, gradually began to write. But really, she began working at the end of 1920., After the two-year stay in Paris (1929-1930). In 1931, she finally moved in Murnau, along with his new companion, art historian Johannes Ayhnerom. There, she worked intensively.

After the Nazis came to power billed Munter could no longer. Her work as the work of Kandinsky and other members of her friends "Horseman" were declared degenerative. Munter hid in her house in Murnau does much of Kandinsky's work during the prewar period, which saved them from destruction.

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After the Second World War Munter Munich house painter asked her to prepare a retrospective exhibition "Blue rider". On the day of his eightieth birthday she gave Munich his collection of paintings, which included her own work, but also more than eighty works by Kandinsky and other members of the group. Now gallery Lenbahhaus, which may be her gift, holds the most significant gathering of artists "Blue rider".
"Russian House" in Murnau became a museum.

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In 1904, with Kandinsky, they traveled to France, the Netherlands and Italy. In Paris, she saw the work of Matisse, potyasshie her, met by Matisse and Henri Rousseau.
In 1909 she bought a small summer house in Murnau on Staffelsee. There they lived with Kandinsky, the house was always full of the Munich avant-garde artists. In "Russian house" stayed Jawlensky, Marianne Verevkina, Franz Marc, August Macke, composer and painter Arnold Schoenberg.

Together with Kandinsky, Marc and Alfred Kubin Munter took an active part in creating the "Blue rider", they formed the core of the new group. It is one of the exhibitions of the work Munter were seen - it was the first of its success.
At the beginning of the First World aoyny Kandinsky was forced to leave Germany. First, they Munter went to Switzerland, but then Kandinsky decided to return to Russia, and Munter, first moved to Stockholm, and then at the end of 1917, in Copenhagen. .
In 1917 Kandinsky was married, and all communication between them broke off.

In the early 1920's. Munter returned to Germany, she lived then in Cologne, then in Munich, spent summers in Murnau. At this time she suffered from depression and almost did not work. In 1925 she moved to Berlin, gradually began to write. But really, she began working at the end of 1920., After the two-year stay in Paris (1929-1930). In 1931, she finally moved in Murnau, along with his new companion, art historian Johannes Ayhnerom. There, she worked intensively.

After the Nazis came to power billed Munter could no longer. Her work as the work of Kandinsky and other members of her friends "Horseman" were declared degenerative. Munter hid in her house in Murnau does much of Kandinsky's work during the prewar period, which saved them from destruction.

After the Second World War Munter Munich Artists House asked it to prepare a retrospective exhibition "Blue rider". On the day of his eightieth birthday she gave Munich his collection of paintings, which included her own work, but also more than eighty works by Kandinsky and other members of the group. Now gallery Lenbahhaus, which may be her gift, holds the most significant gathering of artists "Blue rider".
"Russian House" in Murnau became a museum.

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Basil abandoned her, and she kept his work from the Nazis ... and could break off and crush ... So much for the Blue Rider!

Well, paintings Wassily Kandinsky is not a shirt left her husband.
Gabriele Munter perfectly understood the meaning of art by Kandinsky, however, as he himself.