Nightfall in St. Cloud (Abend im Park)

Gabriele Münter

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Gabriele Münter’s studies of the Parisian countryside were executed en plein air (outdoors) with overlapping strokes of wet paint, thickly applied with a palette knife, resulting in nearly abstracted images of land and sky. Of her landscape painting, Münter said, “My main difficulty was I could not paint fast enough. My pictures are all moments of life—I mean instantaneous visual experiences, generally noted very rapidly and spontaneously. When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim.”

Caption

Gabriele Münter German, 1877–1962. Nightfall in St. Cloud (Abend im Park), 1906. Oil on paperboard mounted on pulpboard, 3 15/16 x 6 1/2 in. (10 x 16.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr., 1992.107.29. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.107.29_PS9.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

European Art

Title

Nightfall in St. Cloud (Abend im Park)

Date

1906

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Oil on paperboard mounted on pulpboard

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

3 15/16 x 6 1/2 in. (10 x 16.5 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left: "M"

Credit Line

Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr.

Accession Number

1992.107.29

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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