Van wie was Gabriele Münter?

Gabriele Münter (Berlijn, 19 februari 1877 – Murnau am Staffelsee, 19 mei 1962) was een Duitse expressionistische schilder en grafisch kunstenaar.

Ze was lid van de Neue Künstlervereinigung München en Der Blaue Reiter. Münter was de levensgezellin van Wassily Kandinsky. Ze hield een aanzienlijk deel van zijn werk verborgen tijdens en vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog en gaf het later terug aan de openbaarheid, met werken van zichzelf en kunstenaarsvrienden van Der Blaue Reiter.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. During this time, he was first the teacher and then the partner of German artist Gabriele Münter. He returned to Moscow in 1914 after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then, "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society" and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Johannes Eichner (* 31. März 1886 in Berlin; † 11. Februar 1958 in München) war ein deutscher Kunsthistoriker.