Gabriele Münter and the 1917 Exhibition of the Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor and Vereinigung Bildende Künstlerinnen Österreichs 1

In Stockholm in January 1917, a joint exhibition was organized by the Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor and the Vereinigung Bildender Kunstlerinnen Osterreichs. By 1917, however, there were heightened political tensions between Left and Right as a consequence of Swedish foreign policy. Interestingly, there was a history of collaboration between the Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor and the Vereinigung Bildender Kunstlerinnen Osterreich. This chapter traces Munter’s participation in the exhibition at the Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm and aims to uncover her agency and networking among women practitioners in a wider modernist milieu. The hanging of Munter’s paintings shows the predominance of portraits over still life, interior, and landscape painting and testifies to her close social and professional interaction with Hjertén and Grunewald.