Gabriele Munter

Gabriele Munter belonged to a group of artists known as The Blue Rider. This German expressionist movement, founded by Gabriele and Wassily Kandinsky, lasted from 1911 to 1914. Appropriately, the name is now linked to an art gallery dedicated to the work of the unknown:

Blue Rider Gallery

They were one of the most famous artist couples of the twentieth century: Wassily Kandinsky and his former pupil Gabriele Münter. "If it were possible to delve deeply enough into the facts, a gripping novel would be born," Münter's later partner, Johannes Eichner, wrote on her relationship to Kandinsky . . . The painter's legend is also interwoven with a village in the Bavarian Alpine Foothills - Murnau is one of the birthplaces of German Modernism and, at the same time, Münter's retreat in later years, where she hid her former lover's artworks from the world.