{"id":63946,"date":"2023-09-18T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T10:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=63946"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:00:50","slug":"gabriele-munter-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/gabriele-munter-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriele M\u00fcnter exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gabrielemuentersmall.jpg\" alt=\"Leopold Museum sign\" class=\"wp-image-63944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gabrielemuentersmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gabrielemuentersmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You might find your artistic endeavours overshadowed when a long-time partner is Wassily Kandinsky. But Gabriele M\u00fcnter now enjoys independent recognition. The Leopold Museum brings us Austria&#8217;s first solo exhibition for this expressionist painter and leading light of the Avant-Garde in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full retrospective<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Covers various media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2026paintings, prints, photos &amp; more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>130+ exhibits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Oct 20, 2023 &#8211; Feb 18, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/leopold-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4014\">Leopold Museum overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#modernart\">Modern art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A retrospective<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/muenter1.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of promenading women by Gabriele M\u00fcnter\" class=\"wp-image-63942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/muenter1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/muenter1-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Gabriele M\u00fcnter, Promenade along the Seine, c. 1904 \u00a9 Kunsthalle Emden, Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation, Donation Otto van den Loo, Photo: bpk\/Kunsthalle Emden\/Martinus Ekkenga \u00a9 Bildrecht, Wien 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/muenchen\/ausstellung-die-vielschichtige-1.3731048\">one source<\/a>, Gabriele M\u00fcnter once wrote (my rough translation):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Many saw me as just an unnecessary accompaniment to Kandinsky. People easily forget that a woman can be creative and have original and genuine talent<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>(Not the first or last woman to suffer in such a way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berlin-born M\u00fcnter (1877-1962) spent well over a decade at Kandinsky&#8217;s side, but her work spans a far greater timeframe. And, despite the sentiments written in that 1926 diary entry, her art has come to be acknowledged as pioneering and important in its own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leopold Museum&#8217;s M\u00fcnter retrospective ties her biographical and creative chronology together in themes, each relating to a stage of her life and each associated with artistic ramifications.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/muenter3.jpg\" alt=\"View of the interior of the M\u00fcnter exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-64936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/muenter3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/muenter3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(View of the Gabriele M\u00fcnter exhibition; press photo \u00a9 Leopold Museum, Wien, 2023; photo by Lisa Rast)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see, of course, works from the early 1910s. This was the time of the short-lived but seminal <em>Der Blaue Reiter<\/em> project initiated by Kandinsky and Franz Marc, but with M\u00fcnter contributing significantly to the activities and art created in that context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many define M\u00fcnter in connection with that groundbreaking period, where her painting became increasingly separated from the subject and even veered into the abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The retrospective, however, also gives due attention to M\u00fcnter&#8217;s wider oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the artist&#8217;s time in Scandinavia (in the late 1910s) saw her tackle more figurative and portrait-like motifs, and a later period in Paris had her drifting towards post-expressionist New Objectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also see, for example, M\u00fcnter&#8217;s prints and photographs, her love for the latter medium inspired by a long tour of the USA with her sister at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/muenter2.jpg\" alt=\"Lake painting by Gabriele M\u00fcnter\" class=\"wp-image-63943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/muenter2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/muenter2-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Gabriele M\u00fcnter, The Blue Lake, 1954 \u00a9 Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Photo: LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz\/Reinhard Haider \u00a9 Bildrecht, Wien 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those images of the southern USA seem an eon and a world away from the subsequent art, bringing home the momentous changes the world experienced as it entered the modern era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The variety of media used by M\u00fcnter certainly speaks to the kind of versatility that always leaves me impressed (and envious): oil painting, reverse glass painting, linocuts and woodcuts, photos, and even bead work, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the variety of styles is such that they might have been produced by different people. Another reminder how creativity and creative pursuits are influenced by age, experience and the environment (in its widest sense) we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although, as M\u00fcnter herself noted in one of the wall quotes at the exhibition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Often, my works seem to me to be too different from one another, but at other times, I think that it is one personality, after all, that creates these different works<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore M\u00fcnter&#8217;s oeuvre from October 20th, 2023 to February 18th, 2024. An entrance ticket from or for the Leopold Museum includes the exhibitions within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum has a concurrent event for another expressionist painter who deserves more attention. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/oppenheimer-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"63693\">solo exhibition<\/a> for Max Oppenheimer (until February 25th, 2024) runs across the whole course of the M\u00fcnter retrospective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the travel tips at the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/leopold-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4014\">main Leopold Museum article<\/a>. The location is part of the central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4030\">MuseumsQuartier complex<\/a>, and the exhibition is on Level -2 (i.e. two floors below the entrance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1i9IZX6LeUKth_5sm2EOO-SqQl8s\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leopold Museum offers a retrospective for this pioneering German whose art escaped the shadow of long-time partner, Kandinsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-museums","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63946"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85193,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946\/revisions\/85193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}