Gabriele Münter vs. George Hendrik Breitner
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gabriele Münter
1877 – 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.
"images of graphic and painting art of Gabriële Münter, in Schlossmuseum Murnau"
George Hendrik Breitner
1857 – 1923
George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
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