page_title: Mia Münster
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Mia Münster / Work
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mia Münster, Zwangsarbeiterinnen, 1944
context_page_description: Mia Münster was a German artist.
context_section_description: Münster belonged to the generation of artists popularly termed the lost generation, born roughly between 1890 and 1910. These artists received little or no respect in the art world in the period after World War II because abstract art was fashionable and older artists, who still worked in figurative style, were mostly ignored.
  During her time in Berlin and Munich Münster made her living producing commercial art. She drew fashion illustrations and prepared designs and drawings for German entertainment magazines and satirical publications. In addition she produced illustrations for extravagant costumes and clothing for the special occasions which were popular in the "Golden Twenties". Münster captured the spirit of the times, marked initially by exuberance and later by insecurity and impoverishment, in many drawings, watercolors, and sketches.
  After she had finally settled in Sankt Wendel she devoted herself to other themes. Her cycle of paintings Lorraine Images (Lothringer Bilder), created after a trip to the nearby Lorraine region of France, is ranked among her best work. A break in her artistic work followed; her earlier figurative work was followed by non-representational abstraction whose stylistic elements, especially Cubism, which she adopted under the influence of contemporary tastes.
  After this phase, roughly around the beginning of the 1960s, she came in contact with the—new to her—technique, the Monotype. Here she developed a unique, refined style, continuing with Abstractionism.
caption: Forced Laborers (Zwangsarbeiterinnen), 1944
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