Until 9 February 2025, the exhibition Gabriele Münter. The great expressionist painter will be presented in the temporary exhibition rooms on the ground floor of the Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, with the support of the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and the collaboration of the Community of Madrid.
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) was one of the founders of Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), the legendary group of Munich-based expressionist artists. In her works, with precise lines and intense colors, the German painter immerses the viewer in his private world. Fruit of her keen gaze, lovers, friends, everyday objects, landscapes or herself are reduced to their essence.
Through more than a hundred paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, the exhibition proposes to discover an artist who rebelled against the limitations that hung over women of her time and who managed to become one of the outstanding figures of German expressionism at the beginning of the 20th century.
The exhibition begins with an extensive chapter dedicated to her beginnings as an amateur photographer and analyzes how her relationship with this modern medium of expression, less codified than traditional fine arts, was fundamental for her later development. His pictorial creation is then shown in a chronological-thematic tour that begins with the works made during his travels through Europe and North Africa together with his partner Wassily Kandinsky, and continues with an extensive chapter dedicated to his masterpieces from the Blue Rider period. Finally, it focuses on his exile in Scandinavia during the First World War and the different ways of expression he found after returning to Germany. Throughout his long career, Münter has demonstrated on many occasions his adaptability, his untiring desire for experimentation and his lack of prejudice towards the new or different.
The exhibition aims to show the wealth of a well-known artist in Germany, but which has only in recent years begun to enjoy greater relevance in the rest of Europe. With four of his paintings in the permanent collections, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum hosts its first retrospective in Spain and thus continues its work to investigate and claim the work and place that many great artists deserve in history.
