Cemetery with a New Grave
- Date
- 1908
- Material
- Oil on artist board
- made in
- Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria state, Germany, Europe
- depicts
- Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 12 7/8 × 16 in. (32.7 × 40.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Morton D. May, by exchange
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 206:2019
NOTES
Bright red flowers mark a new grave in a Bavarian churchyard in Murnau, Germany. Its scenic landscape and picturesque buildings attracted Gabriele Münter, who bought a home nearby and chose this cemetery as her final resting place. In Murnau, she began to make art that transformed scenes from nature into abstract compositions. This painting shows an early stage in that development: Münter cropped out the quaint church and mountainous backdrop to emphasize the contrast of the red flowers against the verdant plantings.
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