"Though she helped shape European modern art, German artist Gabriele Munter's work was quickly overshadowed in the public's mind by her 12-year relationship with noted abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky. She met Kandinsky in Munich in 1902, and with his tutoring, she "mastered color as well as the line," she told a German public broadcaster in 1957. Together with other artists, they founded an avant-garde arts collective called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in 1911."
"At the time, most modern artists, like Kandinsky, were moving toward more and more abstract work. Not Munter. In her paintings, people look like people and flowers look like flowers. But her dazzling colors, simplified forms and dramatic scenes are startlingly fresh; her domestic scenes are so immediate that they feel like you've interrupted a crucial, private moment. "Gabriele Munter was so pioneering, so adventurous in her adherence to life,""
Gabriele Munter helped shape European modern art but her work was long overshadowed by a 12-year relationship with Wassily Kandinsky. She met Kandinsky in Munich in 1902 and, with his tutoring, mastered color as well as line. She co-founded the avant-garde collective Der Blaue Reiter in 1911. Munter favored representational subjects: portraits, landscapes and still lifes rendered with dazzling color, simplified forms and dramatic, immediate scenes. Her domestic scenes convey intimate, private moments. After her death in 1962 many institutions overlooked her work, but major exhibitions in Madrid, Paris and the Guggenheim in New York have renewed public exposure and critical interest.
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