"I have learned from many self-portraits that I am a terrible model. (...) Portraiture is always a mystery!" This is how Gabriele Münter excuses the painter Walter Teutsch and probably others who did not manage to capture her essence in a picture. Portraits were of great importance in her assessment of art: "Portrait painting is the boldest and most difficult, the most intellectual, the most extreme task for the artist." Even as a draftswoman, she had studied and refined the portrait. She often portrayed others, less often herself: "I can say that even as a child I used a pencil a lot, and I only ever drew faces." She always managed to capture the special character of each model on the surface, as was the case in her self-portrait from 1909. She designed her portrait with a few lines and a confident brush. It shows her with her head slightly tilted, facing the viewer. She looks at us against a green-red background - with a calm, questioning look. The lack of a smile reinforces the impression of thoughtfulness or even doubt. Her hair is tied up high on her head in a loose bun and is rendered with many changing colors. The collar of her white blouse is edged in dark pink and responds to the delicate color of her cheeks. Here she presents herself entirely as a woman. Only the painting smock indicates her profession. When this self-portrait was created, she was 32 years old and was in the process of buying a small house on the outskirts of Murnau, which she described as a rural idyll together with Wassily Kandinsky wants to use. To do this, she needs the support and goodwill of her family. Her brother-in-law Georg Schroeter manages her small fortune and must agree to the purchase.