Alexei Jawlensky

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In 1921 Jawlensky settled in Wiesbaden, where together with Kandinsky, Klee and Feininger, he created a rather ephemeral association "Blue Four". Association lasted only a few years. His art is becoming more and more in Religion. In 1922-23 gg. He returned to work on the subject, inspired by biblical texts - paintings of a very small format, on which characters are depicted with closed eyes ...

After the Nazis came to power Jawlensky was forbidden to engage in art. But despite the ban on Nazi exhibit their work, the confiscation of most of the paintings and progressive arthritis in the period from 1933 to 1937. he created a series of abstract compositions, which he called "meditation".
Jawlensky died in 1941 in Wiesbaden.
Jawlensky created more than three thousand paintings, but in Russia, his works are effectively dead.