Gabriele Münter : Peindre sans détours

Exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, 4 April - 24 August 2025

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), co-founder of the Blaue Reiter circle in Munich, is one of the most eminent female artists of German Expressionism. In an artistic world dominated by men, she created an extremely personal and diverse body of work spanning six decades. Although her name is often associated with that of Kandinsky, who was her companion during her Munich years (1903-1914), Gabriele Münter never ceased to renew herself, with astonishing modernity, mastering a wide range of techniques and leaving a prolific body of work.

Through a selection of around 170 works in various techniques (painting, engraving, photography, embroidery, etc.), this catalogue of the first retrospective in France devoted to Gabriele Münter offers a detailed overview of the artist's sixty-year career and analyses his importance for the history of twentieth-century art. Seven essays by French and German specialists detail the wealth of his plastic techniques, particularly photography, and his artistic development from the mid-1920s onwards.