Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902–14: A Life in Photographs
Members of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) on the 26 Ainmillerstrasse balcony, Munich, ca. 1911–12. Left to right: Maria and Franz Marc, Bernhard Koehler, Vasily Kandinsky (seated), Heinrich Campendonk, and Thomas von Hartmann. Photo courtesy Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung, Munich
This exhibition presents German artist Gabriele Münter’s photographs along with a selection taken by her companion Vasily Kandinsky, recording the years they lived, traveled, and worked together between 1902 and 1914. Through her camera’s lens, Münter captured private moments in their studio in Munich, the garden of their house in Murnau, and their travels through Europe and northern Africa, as well as collective portraits taken with colleagues and friends, including the artists of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) at the time of their first group exhibition of 1911–12. These documentary images offer a fascinating glimpse into Münter’s and Kandinsky’s personal and public lives.
Also On View
The paintings in this exhibition were produced as the 15th commission of
Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Inspired in
part by Berlin, the city in which Mehretu created the works, the
paintings evoke the psychogeography of a place and the effects of the
built environment on individuals, while at the same time contemplating
the past and the surviving traces of lived history.
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Collection On View
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addition to special exhibitions, the Guggenheim Museum presents
permanent collection shows that focus on the museum's areas of interest
and specialization. On view now from the collection are portions of the Thannhauser Collection—presenting masterpieces by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet,
Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh. More
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