Persons

Gabriele Münter

1877 – 1962

Gabriele was born in Berlin, 1877. She was left without a father at age 9, and when she was 22 - without a mother. When she met Kandinsky she had been two years in America in the company of her sister and with the album drawing. They traveled everywhere. Coming back in Germany, Gabriel had not been able to find where to go to learn more - the girls were not taken all the art schools. Finally, in 1902, she received an offer to join the Union of women - artists in Munich... read more

Nina Kandinsky

1893 – 1980

Nina Andreevskaya from early childhood lived in Moscow. His father died young, a girl brought up by a single mother. Nina completed two courses at university - history and philosophy. She always liked painting, poetry, music, but she especially never learned of the art. About the artist Kandinsky, of course, she heard - that time he took an active part in the cultural life of Moscow. Their acquaintance was held in 1916, on the phone. And later Kandinsky confessed to Nina he fell in love with her voice... read more

Franz Marc

1880 – 1916

Franz Marc (February 8, 1880, Munich – March 4, 1916, Battle of Verdun) was a German painter, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. Marc actively participated in co-founding and organizing Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) circle of artists together with Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke. His father was a professional landscape painter and Franz followed in his father’s... read more

Marianne von Werefkin (Marianna Verevkina)

1860 – 1938

Marianne von Werefkin was born on September 10, 1860, in Tula. She was the daughter of the commander of the Ekaterinburg regiment. She received her first private lessons in academic drawing at the age of fourteen, and in 1880 she became a student of Ilya Repin in his St. Petersburg workshop. Later, in 1888, she had an accident—she accidentally shot herself in the right arm while hunting,... read more

Alexej von Jawlensky

1864 – 1941

Alexej von Jawlensky was born on March 13, 1864, in Torzhok, Tver Province, and lived in Moscow from the age of ten. He began a military career and became interested in painting at the age of fifteen or sixteen. In 1889, already an officer in the Russian army, he requested a transfer to St. Petersburg, where he could combine military service with his studies, and entered the Academy of Fine Arts.... read more

Walter Gropius

1883 – 1969

Walter Gropius was born on May 18, 1883 in Berlin. In 1903 he began studying to be an architect in Munich, and then continued his education in the capital city. In 1907 he applied for a job at the company of architect Peter Behrens, where he worked with such renowned architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Three years later, he and his partner Adolf Meyer decided to start their... read more

Paul Klee

1879 – 1940

Paul Klee was born on December 18th, 1879 in Munchenbuchsee near Bern. A music teacher’s son, he was a talented violinist, and was invited to play at the Musical Association of Bern already at the age of 11, but then turned his attention to the pictorial art, and in 1898 he started studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied alongside Kandinsky from 1900. From 1903 to 1905... read more

Will Grohmann

1887 – 1968

From 1908 to 1913, Grohmann studied Oriental languages at the universities of Paris and Leipzig, with a special focus on Sanskrit. He wrote his doctoral thesis on German literature and taught languages at a school. But his true passion was art — he devoted himself entirely to art history and scholarly publishing. He was interested in the artists of the Die Brücke group and actively... read more

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