Word: munter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have more than 500 of them disappear through carelessness and neglect, Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky was a lucky man. He left a huge legacy of his work to his former mistress, and they survived world wars, revolutions, putsches, even the fury of a woman scorned. The woman scorned was Gabriele Munter, Kandinsky's mistress for more than 13 years, who never once looked at the pictures the old master left with her in 1914. Last month, on her 80th birthday, frail, white-haired Gabriele turned the whole collection (valued at $500,000) over to the city of Munich. Last week...
Every Day a Festival. When Gabriele Munter first met Kandinsky in Munich at the beginning of the century, she was a sad-faced girl with brown hair and big eyes, who longed to paint. Kandinsky, who at 30 with his young wife had fled a dull job as an economics professor in Russia, was already the leader of a group of independent artists, and taught painting at their school. Gabriele became his favorite student. He kept her after class, took her on painting jaunts. The following year they left on a five-year tour of Europe and North, Africa...