Gabriele Münter's World

Join the Detroit Institute of Arts for Gabriele Münter’s Worlds, an FMCA lecture by Megan Fontanella, Curator of Modern Art and Provenance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, at 5:30 PM in the Marvin and Betty Danto Lecture Hall, followed by a Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art member reception.

The German-born modernist Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) was at the forefront of experimental art in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. As she explored the potential and limits of visual communication, Münter drew inspiration from her everyday world. She revitalized the genres of landscape, still life, and portraiture, unlocking their capacity for radical originality.

 This lecture focuses on recurrent themes in Münter’s still life paintings, in particular, while underscoring her deep commitment to illuminating subjects grounded in life—thereby challenging modernist narratives that privilege nonrepresentational art.