Routes around the Collection: Gabriele Münter and Modernity 

Organised to coincide with the presentation at the museum of the first retrospective in Spain devoted to the German artist Gabriele Münter, the Friends programme is offering an online course. It will aim to further knowledge of the painter and her key role, as a member of the NKVM and Blaue Reiter [Blue Rider] groups, in the creation and organisation of the first exhibitions of Expressionist painting in Munich. 

Münter, whose artistic importance was until very recently only viewed in terms of her having been the life partner of Wassily Kandinsky, is exceptional for her remarkable creative audacity. In addition to her extensive output of drawings and paintings, her unquenchable intellectual curiosity led her to work on glass decoration, with photography, printmaking and folk art, and to travel in the United States, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Tunisia. 

The course will cover different phases within Münter’s career, from her initial training in a Post-impressionist style to the years when she lived and exhibited in Denmark. It will look at the brilliant period of her work in Murnau and her relationship with her fellow artists and friends from the Blue Rider group in her quest for an art that reflected life and for a “direct” type of painting. 

Led by professor Almudena Rodríguez Guridi, the course will take place on the Microsoft Teams platform. Login details and documentation will be sent to participants by e-mail.