Lenbachhaus collection The Blue Rider
THE COLLECTION THE BLUE RIDER
The Lenbachhaus has the world’s largest collection of art of the Blue Rider, one of the most important groups of avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century. The core of this treasure consists of the generous endowment by the painter Gabriele Münter, who was Wassily Kandinsky’s companion until 1914. On occasion of her eightieth birthday in 1957, she bequeathed more than a thousand works of the Blue Rider to the Lenbachhaus, all from the period up until 1914, during which the artists jointly achieved the breakthrough to a novel kind of expressive and intensely colorful—and in Kandinsky’s case, ultimately abstract—painting. Among these works were ninety oil paintings by Kandinsky as well as around three hundred and thirty watercolors and drawings, his sketchbooks, reverse glass paintings, and his printed oeuvre. The bequest also included more than twenty-five paintings and ca. two hundred works on paper by Münter herself and her entire printed oeuvre, as well as works by artist friends such as Franz Marc, August Macke, Alexej Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and Paul Klee. Gabriele Münter’s extraordinarily generous gift made the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus a world-class museum.
Source: https://www.lenbachhaus.de
Description of Images:
Image1: Gabriele Münter
Jawlensky and Werefkin, 1909
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Image 2: Franz Marc
Kühe, gelb-rot-grün, 1912
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
Image 3: Gabriele Münter
Im Zimmer (Frau im weißem Kleid), 1913
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Image 4: Gabriele Münter
The Russian's House, 1931
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Source of Images: https://www.lenbachhaus.de
The Lenbachhaus has the world’s largest collection of art of the Blue Rider, one of the most important groups of avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century. The core of this treasure consists of the generous endowment by the painter Gabriele Münter, who was Wassily Kandinsky’s companion until 1914. On occasion of her eightieth birthday in 1957, she bequeathed more than a thousand works of the Blue Rider to the Lenbachhaus, all from the period up until 1914, during which the artists jointly achieved the breakthrough to a novel kind of expressive and intensely colorful—and in Kandinsky’s case, ultimately abstract—painting. Among these works were ninety oil paintings by Kandinsky as well as around three hundred and thirty watercolors and drawings, his sketchbooks, reverse glass paintings, and his printed oeuvre. The bequest also included more than twenty-five paintings and ca. two hundred works on paper by Münter herself and her entire printed oeuvre, as well as works by artist friends such as Franz Marc, August Macke, Alexej Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and Paul Klee. Gabriele Münter’s extraordinarily generous gift made the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus a world-class museum.
Source: https://www.lenbachhaus.de
Description of Images:
Image1: Gabriele Münter
Jawlensky and Werefkin, 1909
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Image 2: Franz Marc
Kühe, gelb-rot-grün, 1912
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
Image 3: Gabriele Münter
Im Zimmer (Frau im weißem Kleid), 1913
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Image 4: Gabriele Münter
The Russian's House, 1931
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Source of Images: https://www.lenbachhaus.de
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