Gabriele Münter

"images of graphic and painting art of Gabriële Münter, in Schlossmuseum Murnau"

"But we had no contact with the painters of the Dachau and Worpswede School . It was only much later, for instance, that we discovered that Hoelzel had already been experimenting with non-objective com…"

"I think we were all more interested in being honest than in being modern. That's why there could be such great differences between the styles of the various members of our group.. .They had great fait…"

"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."

"As far as I am concerned, I learned this technique from Kandinsky and, at the same time, from the glass paintings of the Bavarian peasants of the Murneau area, who had painted for centuries in this st…"

"He Kandinsky had always expressed a great interest in abstraction when we visited Tunisia together in 1904. The Moslem interdiction of representational painting seemed to stir his imagination and that…"

"That was a new artistic experience; Kandinsky was quite unlike the other teachers, and explained things thoroughly and penetratingly and regarded me as a human being with conscious aspirations, capabl…"

"I don't think that Kandinsky was ever really a communist. He just happened to be in Russia and to become involved in some revolutionary artistic activities because of his reputation as a revolutionary…"