After her return from Scandinavia and an almost depressive abstention from painting, Gabriele Münter first began a renewed engagement with landscape themes in the course of 1923. Here, local motifs from Murnau and its surroundings took priority.
Particularly in the following winter, she derived new inspiration from the snow-bound world of the Bavarian foothills of the Alps. Primarily works on paper date from this time, characterised by a new ease of linearity with restrained applications of wash in few colours.