A new exhibition at Paris’ Musee d’Art Moderne casts light on the pioneering German abstractionist Gabriele Münter.
Münter was the student and partner of fellow Der Blaue Reiter movement co-founder Wassily Kandinsky, and was often unfairly minimized as such.
Münter’s first-ever France retrospective aims to rectify that by highlighting her own profound influence: In particular, a linocut series of a maid at her Paris boarding house serves as a “distant precursor” to Andy Warhol’s silkscreens.
Ironically, Münter’s contributions were further overshadowed later on by a large trove of Kandinsky works she saved from destruction by the Nazis — “it is now high time to set that record straight,” Le Monde wrote.
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