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Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter, February 19, 1877–May 19, 1962, was a German painter born in Berlin. She attended the Ladies’ Academy in Munich before enrolling at the Phalanx art school, where she studied with Wassily Kandinsky. She travelled with Kandinsky in Europe and North Africa between 1904 and 1908.
Münter painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes and interiors, using simplified forms, strong outlines and contrasting colours. She participated in the New Artists’ Association of Munich and the exhibitions of Der Blaue Reiter. During the First World War she lived in Switzerland and Scandinavia; she returned to Germany in 1920.
In 1931 Münter settled permanently in Murnau, where she continued working until her death. In 1957 she donated a substantial part of her collection to the Lenbachhaus, Munich. Her paintings are held by the Lenbachhaus, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
Max Klinger
Max Klinger, February 18, 1857–July 4, 1920, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor. Born in Leipzig, he studied at the art school in Karlsruhe and the academy in Berlin, where his teacher was Karl Gussow. He subsequently worked in Brussels, Paris and Rome before returning to Leipzig in 1893.
Klinger became a professor at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig and a member of the Vienna Secession in 1897. His Beethoven sculpture was first exhibited at the Secession in 1902. He became vice-president of the German Artists’ Association in 1903 and helped establish its Villa Romana studio house in Florence in 1905.
His paintings and sculptures are held by the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Moritzburg Art Museum, Galerie Neue Meister and Belvedere. His prints are represented in the Albertina, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum. He died at his home in Großjena near Naumburg, where he is buried
