Gabriele Munter Quotes

Germany, Painter
February 19, 1877 – May, 19, 1962.

Gabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things.

Gabriele Munter
- Nature
- Content
- Leap
Our sketchbooks and studies – as well as the paintings and photos, convey the detail of our Tunisian impressions. At times we got along well – at times not at all – we took walks in the city and also in the Belvedere park – it was never boring with my beloved , but we didn't made contact with any other people; he never wanted it.

Gabriele Munter

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

Gabriele Munter
- Girl
- Drawing
- Generations
As I came to Munich in 1901 it was in a period of great artistic renewal. Jugendstil began in its way to attack the old naturalism and to cultivate the qualities of pure line.

Gabriele Munter
..the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, – expressing the extract..

Gabriele Munter