“.. the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, – expressing the extract..”

—  Gabriele Münter

as quoted in the exposition-text 'Alexej von Jawlensky', Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen Rotterdam; 25/9 – 27/ 11-1994, p. 21
this quote of Gabriele Münter was the leading idea for her early painting during the period she worked with Kandinsky in and around Murnau..

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