Gabriele Münter in her artist quotes on painting & life - free resource, German art history

Gabriele Münter in quotes - the woman-artist on her painting art and life in the Blaue Reiter artist-group in South Germany, with all its artists in Munich and Murnau - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in German art history

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In her artist-quotes Gabriele Munter wrote about her landscape-painting in and around the German village Murnau (near Munich). She described her years together with Kandinsky till 1914, and with the other artists in ‘Der Blaue Reiter’ (Blue Rider) group: Jawlensky, Werefkin, Franz Marc and Paul Klee.

Gabriele Münter frequently painted in open air with her love Kandinsky and other German artists between 1908 - 1914.
She described her daily life in Murnau, painting side by side landscapes in open air - in the lower mountain area near Munich, Germany. She also describes how after 1914 (Kandinsky left her, because of World War 1.) she continued painting the landscape - first with the palette knife and then the brushes - learned from Kandinsky!
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Some selected quotes of German artist Gabriele Münter - as a short introduction of her extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’…the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, - expressing the extract…’ - quote of Gabriele Münter, c. 1906, as cited in: ‘Alexej von Jawlensky’, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen Rotterdam, 1994, p. 21

• ’I was never interested in… …creating a new style. I simply painted in whatever style seemed to suit me best. But Kandinsky was a thinker and had to express his ideas in words… -quote of Gabriele Munter, in an interview with Edouard Roditi, 1958

• ’Each of us (artists of Blaue Reiter / Blue Rider) was interested in the work of the other members of our group, much as each of us was also interested in the health and happiness of the others. But we were still far from considering ourselves as a group or a school of art…’ -quote of Münter, in an interview with E. Roditi, 1958
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  selection of free art-resources on German artist Gabriele Münter:

  • biographical notes on Gabriele Münter, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Münter
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Gabriele Münter, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gabriele_Münter
  • images of the painting art in Germany of Münter, Wikiart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gabriele_Münter
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]