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3229* GABRIELE MÜNTER(Berlin 1877 - 1962 Murnau)
Rotes Moos. 1959.
Oil on board.
Signed and dated lower left: Münter 59.
33 x 41 cm.
This work will be included in the Catalogue
raisonné of paintings by Gabriele Münter,
published by the Gabriele Münter and
Johannes Eichner Foundation.
Provenance:
- Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich.
- Private collection, Germany (bought in
the 70s at the gallery above).
The work “Rotes Moos”, which Münter
painted in her mature later period, consists
of areas of colour harmoniously brought
together. They depict a concrete, yet
strongly abstracted landscape. Münter felt
much more committed to the “concept of
nature” than to abstraction, and found in
the flat composition of the mountainous
landscape, the absence of shadow and
the contouring of individual areas, a fitting
stylistic device, which is brought to bear
splendidly in the present painting.
In her late work, Gabriele Münter con-
sistently used motifs from the Blaue Reiter
period. Thus, we are struck by how close
“Rotes Moos” is in composition and colour
to the painting “Seelandschaft mit drei Ku-
Gabriele Münter at the age
of 75, Murnau, 1952
Image: Sigrid Bühring; Gab-
riele Münter- und Johannes
Eichner-Stiftung, Munich,
Inv.-Nr. 3384.
gelbäumen” circa 1909. The blue mountain
chain looms in the upper half of the picture
and only appears to be separated from the
green of the fields in the foreground by the
red horizontal band of moss. The lack of
spatial depth is replaced by the dominant
colouring, so that the (dark) contours of
the landscape elements are used only in a
very targeted way. In many cases the areas
of colour are placed directly alongside
one another, or they are separated by the
shimmering ground colour.
“Rotes Moos” reverberates splendidly with
Münter’s art and skill, whereby the radical
position of her early years has yielded to
an inner harmony, which in the luminosity
and interplay of colours gives witness to
an intensity, which characterises Münter’s
work in her best years.
CHF 100 000 / 150 000
(€ 92 590 / 138 890)