📍Münter-Haus, Kottmüllerallee 6, 82418 Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
1909 – 1914“I grew up in Moscow and Odessa, and even as a child colours seemed to me to have sounds and feelings. I studied law and economics and taught at Moscow University before deciding at thirty to become a painter and moving to Munich. In August 1909 my partner, the painter Gabriele Münter, bought a small house on the edge of Murnau, a market town in the Bavarian foothills above the Staffelsee lake, with views to the Alps. The villagers called it the Russian House, after me. We furnished it together, laid out the garden, and painted the furniture and the staircase ourselves with flowers and riders, inspired by the local folk art and the glass paintings of the region. Our friends — Franz Marc, Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin — came to stay, and here the ideas of the Blue Rider were born. In Murnau's clear mountain light my painting broke free from what things look like and became abstract. War in 1914 forced me out of Germany. Gabriele kept the house, and later hid many of my paintings in its cellar through the Nazi years. It is now open as the Münter-Haus.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
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