In this view of the town centre from the north (from Pechmannstrasse), the eye is drawn to the houses north of the castle. In the foreground on the left is the massive structure of the Reindlkeller, with the spire of St. Nikolaus Church visible in the background. Gabriele Münter's new approach to painting is particularly evident in her 1910 work ‘Moon over Murnau’. Here, her interest lies not in the folkloristically attractive views of the popular meeting place for Munich's summer visitors, but rather in the mundane reverse side of the farmhouses away from the picturesque motifs of the town centre. She breaks down the rudiments of architecture and nature into geometric shapes – triangles, rectangles, circles and trapezoids. Without overlapping, colour fields are built up next to and above each other, creating extreme transience in their additive sequence. The light describes the moment of twilight, when the silver moon is already rising in the artfully yellow, glowing sky after sunset. Gabriele Münter pursues a radical dissolution of form here that is unique in her oeuvre.

· The artist's estate
· Sammlung Resch
· Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich
· Galerie Thomas, Munich
· Private collection, Düsseldorf (acquired from the above on 12
November 1999
· Van Meeteren Foundation (by descent from the above)
· Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)