GALLERY VENUS

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Nude Study	Grazing Horses I	Nude with Cat
Cows under Trees	The Little Monkey	The Tiger

Important facts from the artist's life:

1880: born in Munich
1899: graduation at the Luitpold-Gymnasium in Munich
1903: first journey to France
1904: opening of his own studio in Schwabing
1906: ménage à trois with Marie Schür and Maria Franck
1907: married Marie Schür, left on the same day alone, divorce the following year
1907: journey to Paris, where he got inspired by the postimpressionists
1910: met August Macke, an intensive friendship afterwards
1911: co-founder of "Der Blaue Reiter"
1913: first nonfigurative paintings
1913: married Maria Franck
1914: applied voluntarily for military service
1916: was killed in France, near Verdun