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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Mrs. Holzinger from the Gabriele Münter und Johannes Eichinger Archiv, Munich for researching this painting.
The present painting portrays the painter Wassily Kandinsky working in the garden of Gabriele Münter's house at Murnau. The two artists met in 1902 when Münter was a student of Kandinsky's at the Phalanx School in Munich, and they soon became lovers. In 1904 Kandinsky separated from his wife Anja Chimiakin and moved in with Münter. In the late summer of 1908, Münter and Kandinsky visited Murnau and the next year Münter bought a house that came to be known as Russenvilla. Until the outbreak of World War I, she and Kandinsky spent the summer months living and working there. The present picture was painted in 1912, on one of the three visits that Kandinsky made to Murnau during the months of May, June and August, and just three years before the end of their relationship.
The present painting portrays the painter Wassily Kandinsky working in the garden of Gabriele Münter's house at Murnau. The two artists met in 1902 when Münter was a student of Kandinsky's at the Phalanx School in Munich, and they soon became lovers. In 1904 Kandinsky separated from his wife Anja Chimiakin and moved in with Münter. In the late summer of 1908, Münter and Kandinsky visited Murnau and the next year Münter bought a house that came to be known as Russenvilla. Until the outbreak of World War I, she and Kandinsky spent the summer months living and working there. The present picture was painted in 1912, on one of the three visits that Kandinsky made to Murnau during the months of May, June and August, and just three years before the end of their relationship.