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At the beginning of the 20th century, a new expressive style of
painting developed in Germany which significantly changed the face of
the centuries old European art traditions. In this period, the events
that happened in the art scene in Murnau greatly contributed to this
transition.
In early August 1908,Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele
Münter, Alexej Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin travelled from
Munich to Murnau on a visit of art study.
It was in this
open-spaced landscape, framed in the South by the alpine silhouette,
with its defined colours, the intensive light and the picturesque town
that numerous landscape pictures and views of the town were created,
however, these paintings did not duplicate nature’s images any
longer
but portrayed a subjective impression and caught "the feeling of
content" as it was described by Gabriele Münter at a later date.
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