Gabriele Münter studied the piano throughout her…

Gabriele Münter studied the piano throughout her youth but in 1902 entered the Phalanx School of art in Munich, where within a year the twenty-four-year-old Berliner becomes the student and companion of Kandinsky.

Munich native Franz Marc, twenty-three in 1903, had executed his early works in a self-consciously academic style, but his exposure to French Impressionist painting now lightens his stolid naturalism.