The painter Olga Meerson (1882-1930). Pupil of Kandinsky, muse of Matisse
11.04.2025 - 09.11.2025 ,
Schlossmuseum Murnau (Murnau Castle Museum)
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The painter and Kandinsky pupil Olga Meerson (1882-1930) is at the centre of the research and exhibition project. Although Olga Meerson was a pupil of Wassily Kandinsky at the Phalanx School at the same time as Gabriele Münter, a pupil of Henri Matisse in France and later the wife of Heinz Pringsheim, the life and work of this artist have unfortunately been forgotten today.
The Schloßmuseum, with its focus on German Expressionist art and the life and work of Gabriele Münter, has undertaken meticulous research and in this exhibition provides an insight into the life and work of an artist who, like Gabriele Münter, had to find her way as a painting student in Munich. Meerson's traces lead via the painting school of Anton Ažbe, to the painting stays at the Phalanx School in Kochel and Kallmünz, to Murnau and to the Académie Matisse in Paris. After marrying Heinz Pringsheim in 1912, she went to Berlin with him. There, in 1922, she took part in an exhibition of Russian artists together with Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Genin, Nicolaus Iszelenov and Maria Lagorio. She took her own life there just eight years later.
Last edited on 25.11.2025
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