Gabriele Münter

German Expressionist painter and printmaker, Gabriele Münter produced vibrant figurative and abstract works of art noted for their dramatic palette and gestural application of paint. The Berlin-born artist began her training at the Phalanx School in Munich, where she met her future partner, Wassily Kandinsky. With him and Franz Marc, she founded the progressive artists' group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). The movement attracted creators who believed that art should, first and foremost, embody artist’s individual mental, emotional, and spiritual truths through a turn away from recognizable subject matter. Münter's landscapes, portraits, and folk art-inspired works carried emotional depth and abstract elements, reflecting both her personal experiences and broader modernist trends.