1877 | Gabriele Münter is born in Berlin on February 19th. In 1884 her family moves to Koblenz. |
1897 | First private lessons at a women’s art school in Düsseldorf. |
1901 | Training in Munich at the ladies’ academy under M. Dasio and A. Jank. Woodcut-course with the graphic artist E. Neumann. |
1902 | Münter receives instruction from Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) at the “Phalanx-Schule,“ painting excursions together in the Alpine foothills, engagement in 1903. |
1904/05 | Travels with Kandinsky in the Rhineland, Holland and North Africa (Tunis), followed by Dresden and Rapallo. |
1906/07 | Shared period of study in Sèvres and Paris. |
1908 | First apartment with Kandinsky in Munich, in late summer an extended period of study in Murnau with Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin. |
1909 | Founding of the “New Munich Artist’s Union,“ first exhibition. Münter purchases a house in the Kottmüllerallee in Murnau. |
1911 | Kandinsky founds the periodical “Der Blaue Reiter“ with Franz and Maria Marc, August and Elisabeth Macke, Alfred Kubin and others, but there is soon quarreling among the artists; Kandinsky, Münter, Marc and Kubin resign. |
1913 | Münter’s solo exhibition in H. Walden’s Gallery “Storm” in Berlin. |
1915/16 | Stay in Stockholm, visit from Kandinsky and shared exhibitions. |
1917/20 | Gabriele Münter lives alone in Copenhagen, numerous solo exhibitions. |
1920 | Return to Berlin, then Munich and finally Murnau in the summer. |
1925/29 | Move to Berlin, where Münter meets the art historian Johannes Eichner in 1927. Only sporadic visits to Murnau. |
1929/30 | Shared stay in Paris and the south of France. from 1931 Return with Eichner to Murnau, extensive renovation of her house in 1936. Numerous individual exhibitions in all of Germany. |
1939/45 | Münter and Eichner live in retirement and under financial constraints in Murnau. |
1949 | Participation in the exhibition “Der Blaue Reiter” in the Haus der Kunst, Munich. |
from 1950 | Renewed solo exhibitions in Germany, art prize from the city of Munich in 1956, Münter donates works from Kandinsky to the municipal gallery. |
1962 | Gabriele Münter dies on May 19 in Murnau. |