Alexei Jawlensky

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Alexei G. Jawlensky was born in 1864 in the Tver province in Torzhok in the family of Colonel. Initially, he had followed his father and himself became a military. In 1890 he combined his military service with a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where his teacher was Repin. Disappointed in the system of teaching, Jawlensky began attending art studio Marianne Verevkina, which soon became his girlfriend.

In 1896, Jawlensky, resigned and left Russia together, so to speak, with their wives, since in addition to Verevkina, he had another lover, the mother of his son, who was born in 1902, Elena Neznakomova. In Munich, where he became acquainted with Kandinsky, he continued his artistic education.