Gabriele Münter

The Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (acquired in 1966)
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 12th September 1983

Copenhagen, Ny Kunstsal, Gabriele Münter, 1919, no. 84
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter, 1957, no. 42
Berlin, Haus am Lutzowplatz, Gabriele Münter, 1957, no. 51
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Gabriele Münter. Oil Paintings 1903-1937, 1960, no. 43
Mannheim, Kunsthalle, Gabriele Münter, 1961, no. 41
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Gabriele Münter - Memorial Exhibition, 1961, no. 89
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Gabriele Münter - Fifty Years of Her Art. Paintings: 1906-1956, 1966, no. 56, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Jawlensky and Major German Expressionists, 1980-81, no. 28, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbus (Ohio), Columbus Museum of Art; Richmond (Virginia), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and San Antonio (Texas), Gabriele Münter, 1997-99, no. 81, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

In the autumn of 1917, Münter moved from Stockholm to Copenhagen, where, with the help of Herwarth Walden, she arranged an exhibition of her work that took place in March of the following year. She was acquainted with the Danish artistic circles, and became associated with the radical cabaret Edderkoppen. In 1919, due to her increasingly difficult financial situation, Münter advertised for students to study under her at the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. She left for Bornholm on 22nd June, and spent the summer there instructing her student in landscape painting and executing scenes of the Baltic coast. On her return to Copenhagen, she arranged an exhibition of over 100 works, that opened on 5th October and included her latest landscapes, among which was the present painting.

Fig. 1, Photograph of Gabriele Münter at Bornholm, 1919