Gabriele Münter

Gabriele Münter 1877 - 1962 Landschaft mit Turm. 1919. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated “2.VIII.19” in the lower right. Signed, dated, and inscribed “Hammershus - Mantelturm” in blue chalk on the reverse of the canvas; also bears the estate stamp and the handwritten chalk inscription “L. 346.” Additionally, with a sticker bearing the handwritten number “246”. 45.3 x 35.2 cm (17.8 x 13.8 in). • From her important Scandinavian period: Münter in dialogue with the Swedish avant-garde. • Gabriele Münter combines graphic contours with a reduced, light color palette. • Gabriele Münter visited the Hammershus ruins on Bornholm in 1919. • Münter’s wallet calendar documents a painting excursion to the Hammershus ruins on August 2, 1919. Accompanied by a written certificate of authenticity issued by the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich, dated April 18, 2011 (copy). The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Gabriele Münter’s paintings. PROVENANCE: The artist’s estate. Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich. Private collection, Hesse. Private collection, Austria (2011, Ketterer Kunst). LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 386th Auction, Modern Art, December 10, 2011, lot 37 (with color illustration). “It is interesting that the rather ‘worldly,’ angular-expressive style of Gabriele Münter’s large paintings from her Scandinavian period was regarded as the truly Expressionist phase of her work by German critics of the 1920s, accustomed as they were to the second-generation ‘big-city Expressionism.’” Annegret Hoberg, Gabriele Münter 1877–1962: Retrospective, Lenbachhaus Munich et al., Munich 1992, n.p., before plate 138) Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 15.41 h +/- 20 min.

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