In the Room

Gabriele Münter (German, 1877-1962) – In the Room (also known as Woman in White Dress), 1913 (Oil on canvas. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus) - - In 1902, Münter began a 12-year professional and personal relationship with the Phalanx School’s director, Wassily Kandinsky. They traveled together and in 1908 discovered the Bavarian village of Murnau, where Münter later bought a house. Münter helped establish the Munich-based avant-garde group Neue Künstlervereinigung (New Artists’ Association) in 1909.