In the first half of the 20th century, only one painter and one female painter occupied a significant position in German modernist art with regard to flower still lifes: Emil Nolde and Gabriele Münter. While Nolde sought to heighten the glowing, intoxicating quality of the flowers through intense color effects, Münter took a different approach. She was fascinated by the formal beauty of flowers, which she captured with simple painterly means. The artist did not allow her flowers to grow into exotic creatures; on the contrary, she reduces their spectacular value to a simplicity of expression based solely on form and color. Gabriele Münter arranged the flowers from her garden in Murnau, which she loved and cared for very much, and always attained new solutions in her still lifes. [EH]