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After a year in Düsseldorf at the women’s counterpart to the all-male Art Academy and two years with relatives in the United States, she settled in Munich. In 1902 she entered the progressive, coeducational Phalanx School, where she studied still-life painting with the Russian expatriate Wassily Kandinsky and attended his summer classes in landscape painting in the Bavarian countryside. Although he had a wife in Russia, they entered into a relationship and lived as man and wife until the outbreak of World War I. During their travels, a stay in France (1906–7) coincided with the exhibitions of the Fauve artists, and the brightly colored works and ­simplified forms of Maurice Denis, Henri Matisse, and André Derain became important influences for them.

\r\nAfter their return to Munich, Münter purchased a house in the Bavarian village of Murnau that became a meeting place for the couple’s friends. This painting and a similar one in Munich show a seated Kandinsky taking tea or coffee with one of the women artists from their circle, Erma Bossi. Kandinsky seems to hold forth, while Bossi leans forward to listen to what must be a vehement statement — he raises his hand to make a point. With Kandinsky’s encouragement, Münter painted some of her most important works in this period, and his role as a mentor seems to be reflected in this image of him lecturing to a woman artist. The generalized forms and block-like colors may be related to Kandinsky’s growing abstraction in his landscapes, but Münter always retained her own figurative style and never followed Kandinsky into abstracted, musically inspired forms. She found inspiration instead in the regional folk art, especially reverse painting on glass, and in children’s drawings. Although Münter and Kandinsky were divided by the war, his return to Russia and remarriage to a second Russian wife, and an eventual bitter parting, Münter’s art always retained some of the lessons of her teacher and lover, interpreted in the light of her own particular genius.

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\nGabriele Münter [1];\n\n

\n\tPossibly transferred by her to Lehnbachgalerie, Munich, Germany, ca. 1957.\n

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\n\tPrivate collection by 1967. [2]\n

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\n\tAnonymous gift to Princeton University Art Museum, 2012.\n

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\n\t[1] According to Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, Münter probably hid the painting in her home until at least 1945\n

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\n\t[2] Gabriele Münter: Gedächtnisausstellung zum 90. Geburtstag, Heidelberg Kunstverein, 1967. \n

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