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.

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In 1905 he visited Paris, which gave him the opportunity to get acquainted with Fauvism. In his works of this time was influenced by Matisse.
 
In 1908 she and Kandinsky, Gabriele Munter Verevkina and organized in New Munich Kunstverein. In the summer they worked in Murnau, Jawlensky and developed his own style, based on the elements of Jugendstil, discoveries Matisse after-fovistskogo period stylization Bavarian lubok and Russian icons. His work is characterized by ieratichnostyu characters, as well as using the black contour of the insulating uyetovye spots.

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Later Jawlensky worked in the union "Blue Rider" (1911-1914), created by Kandinsky and Marc Frank.
After the collapse of the society of artists in 1914, Jawlensky moved to Switzerland. There he struck up friendships with such artists as Archipenko, Arp, Lembruk, Segal. During this period he experimented with abstract forms, which he called "Variations on the theme of landscape, still life, etc. or "songs without words". Then moved its new artistic principles and the human face, which since then has taken a predominant place in the artist and obviously endowed with sacral functions

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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.

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but in Russia, his works are effectively dead.

In the State Tretyakov Gallery, one hanging.

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In the State Tretyakov Gallery, one hanging.

What you can show?

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What you can show?

Small landscape, I have no photos.

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In the official publication of the "Catalog of the meeting. Art XVIII - XX centuries. Painting the late XIX - early XX century." n /ed. Y. Brooke and LI Iovleva, TG, ScanRus, 2005

names Jawlensky no.

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names Jawlensky no.

Are you what?

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The official publication of the "Catalog of the meeting. Art XVIII - XX centuries. Painting the late XIX - early XX century." n /ed. Y. Brooke and LI Iovleva, TG, ScanRus, 2005
no names Jawlensky.

"June 21, 2000 at the Stroganov Palace, Russian Museum opened an exhibition of works of one of the most famous masters of Russian avant-garde Alexei Yavlensky ....
B of the exhibition includes works from museums and private collections in Germany, Switzerland and Russia, including the Museum of Ame Ostval (Dortmund, Germany), Museum of Fine Arts, the city of Omsk, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg), Gosudarstvennogo Russian Museum (St. Petersburg). The exhibition was prepared in the framework of the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum. "