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Fisherman's House (Fischerhaus),
1908
Gabriele Münter, 1877–1962; born Berlin, Germany; died Murnau (am Staffelsee), Germany
2012-23
The fisherman’s house, with boats drawn up on the shore, must have been a familiar sight at Murnau, a town on Lake Staffel where Münter owned a house. The haystacks characterize this as an agricultural region, but Münter’s landscapes in this period are curiously deserted, although always with signs of human habitation. It has been suggested that the lack of people in her compositions reflects the isolated life that Münter, Kandinsky, and their artist friends led in Murnau. Indeed, the New Artists Association Munich was concerned with the promotion of avant-garde expression rather than engagement with social themes.
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Title
Fisherman's House (Fischerhaus)
Dates
1908
Maker
Medium
Oil on board
Dimensions
39.4 × 31.1 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.)
frame: 59.4 × 51.4 × 4.1 cm (23 3/8 × 20 1/4 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
In loving memory of Frank and Peggy Taplin
Object Number
2012-23
Signatures
Signed and dated in paint, lower right: Münter 08
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
(Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles); 1968 purchase by private collection, Princeton, NJ; 2012 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
Fisherman's House
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Reinhold Heller, Gabriele Münter: the years of expressionism, 1903-1920, (Munich; New York: Prestel, 1997).
, no. 36, p. 120 (color illus.) - Herbert Eichhorn and Barbara Wörwag, Gabriele Münter: eine Malerin des Blauen Reiters: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 1999)., p. 84, fig. 9
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2012," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 105-132., p. 118 (illus.)
- Old master & British drawings: auction in London, 9 July 2014, sale L14040, 10.30 am, (London: Sotheby's, 2014).
- Benedicte Bonnet Saint-Georges, "Des tableaux d'Alfred Stevens et d'Edouard Agneessens pour Bruxelles," La Tribune de l'Art (March 15, 2016)., (illus.)
