Münter House

From then until 1914 they lasted Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) often in this house, popularly known as “Russian House” designated, on. They set it up together, laid out the garden and painted the furniture according to their own designs.

The Murnau landscape, particularly the house itself, its garden and the immediate surroundings, became an important source of inspiration for Münter and Kandinsky. They often painted the view from the window of the church and the castle as well as the mountain range. Based on his examination of landscape, Kandinsky's painting developed into abstraction.

The Münter House also played a crucial role in the History of the “Blue Rider”. It became a significant one Meeting point of the avant-garde. Franz Marc, who lived in nearby Sindelsdorf, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, August Macke and Arnold Schönberg often came to visit, as did collectors and critics. The working sessions took place there in October 1911 Preparation of the almanac “The Blue Rider” instead of. In addition to Münter and Kandinsky, Franz and Maria Marc as well as August and Elisabeth Macke took part.

When the First World War began on August 1, 1914, Münter and Kandinsky initially fled to Switzerland because, as a Russian, Kandinsky belonged to the enemy camp. In November 1914 he returned to Moscow, where he would stay until 1921. Gabriele Münter lived in Sweden from the summer of 1915 to December 1917 and then settled in Copenhagen.
At the beginning of 1920 Münter returned to Germany. The painter lived again in the Murnau house with her future partner, the art historian Johannes Eichner (1886-1958), from 1931 until her death in 1962. In the basement of the house she kept an immense treasure of pictures, especially by Wassily Kandinsky, as well as her own works and those of other protagonists of the “Blue Rider” and his circle, and thus saved them during the Nazi era. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Gabriele Münter donated important parts of this unique collection to the Städtische Galerie in the Lenbachhaus in Munich.

According to the artist's wishes Since its renovation in 1998/99, the entire Münter House has been set up as a place of remembrance of their art and the Kandinskys Open to the public. It was restored to its original condition from 1909 to 1914. Thanks to its rich furnishings with paintings, graphics and reverse-glass pictures by Kandinsky and Münter, as well as examples of folk art that they collected and the furniture they painted themselves, the house today once again conveys a vivid impression of the atmosphere that prevailed here before the First World War .

There is no parking space in front of the Münter-Haus.
Train connection Munich-Murnau every hour