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Alexei Jawlensky 1864-1941
Russian
Alexei Jawlensky Galleries
Alexej von Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, a town in the department of Tver, Russia, as the fifth child of Georgi von Jawlensky and his wife Alexandra (n??e Medwedewa). His family was aristocratic.
At the age of ten he moved with his family to Moscow. After a few years of military training, he became interested in painting, visiting the Moscow World Exposition c. in 1880.
In 1896 he moved to Munich where he studied in the private school of Anton Azbe. In Munich he met Wassily Kandinsky, and Marianne von Werefkin, other Russian artists and helped form the Neue Kunstlervereinigung M??nchen. His work in this period was lush and richly coloured, but later moved towards abstraction with a simplified and formulaic style in a search to find the spiritual.
Alexej von Jawlensky. Abstract Head, c. 1928He died in Wiesbaden, Germany on 15 March 1941.
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Painting ID:: 2060 Seated Female Nude
1910 Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Painting ID:: 2061 Spanish Woman
1913
Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Painting ID:: 2062 Love
1925
Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Painting ID:: 2063 Meditation
1922
Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Painting ID:: 21614 The Red Shawl (mk09)
1909
Oil on canvas,54 x 49 cm
Private collection
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Alexei Jawlensky
1864-1941
Russian
Alexei Jawlensky Galleries
Alexej von Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, a town in the department of Tver, Russia, as the fifth child of Georgi von Jawlensky and his wife Alexandra (n??e Medwedewa). His family was aristocratic.
At the age of ten he moved with his family to Moscow. After a few years of military training, he became interested in painting, visiting the Moscow World Exposition c. in 1880.
In 1896 he moved to Munich where he studied in the private school of Anton Azbe. In Munich he met Wassily Kandinsky, and Marianne von Werefkin, other Russian artists and helped form the Neue Kunstlervereinigung M??nchen. His work in this period was lush and richly coloured, but later moved towards abstraction with a simplified and formulaic style in a search to find the spiritual.
Alexej von Jawlensky. Abstract Head, c. 1928He died in Wiesbaden, Germany on 15 March 1941.
. Related Artists to Alexei Jawlensky: | Jan van Noordt | Le Sidaner Henri | Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans | Josefa of Ayala | Domenico Beccafumi |
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