Alexei jawlensky biography of george

  • The Russian-born German artist known as Alexej Von Jawlensky, was a highly regarded and influential Expressionist painter who worked in Germany alongside.
  • Alexei von Jawlensky, born in Torzhok in western Russia in 1864, started his career in the military.
  • Like his friend Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a Russian émigré painter working in Germany.

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    Artist:

    Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, b.1864-1867, d.1941), painter

    Medium:

    oil on composition board

    Measurements:

    28 1/8 x 19 3/4 in. (71.4 x 50.2 cm), framed 38 1/2 x 30 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (97.8 x 76.5 x 4.1 cm)

    Department:

    European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings

    kredit Line:

    Fanny Bryce Lehmer Endowment

    Rights:

    © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    Provenance:

    Alexej von Jawlensky, Munich, 1911-? [1]. (Madame Lea Jaray [Lea Bondi Jaray, 1880-1969], London, ca.1956, sold to [2]); (Redfern galleri, London, by at least 1956-April 1971, sold to [3]); (Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York, April 1971-?, sold to); Private Collection, returned to; (Serge Sabarsky galleri, New York, ?-1975, sold to); Cincinnati Art Museum, 1975-present. [1] In 1914, at the onset of World War I, Jawlensky fled Germany for Switzerland, leaving many artworks in his Munich studio. In 1920 he and his family returned to Munich to gather the

  • alexei jawlensky biography of george

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    Alexei Jawlensky

    Ed. Vivian Endicott Barnett

    Like his friend Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a Russian émigré painter working in Germany. With 79 plates and more than 150 smaller images featuring his bold, colourful portraits, landscapes and still lifes, this catalogue of an exhibition at the Neue Galerie in New York spans his 50-year career. Accompanying essays by a team of art historians explore his artistic development, including his involvement in the Munich-based Blue Rider group.

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    Product information:
    • Publisher: Prestel
    • Year: 2017
    • Format: Hardback
    • Pages: 192pp
    • Illustrated: Yes
    • Dimensions: 288x240mm
    • ISBN: 9783791356389
    • Condition: New
    • Weight: 1.5kg

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    FEATURE Image: Jawlensky, Hügel (Hills), 1912, oil on hardboard, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund.

    Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941), Russian-émigré German Expressionist painter.

    SUMMARY:

    Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941), a ung Russian-émigré artist to Germany beginning in the mid 1890’s, became one of the most progressive avant-garde modernist artists of his generation. His international search—from Russia to France, England and the Low Countries, as well as his lifelong expatriate base in Munich, Germany—led him to experiment and synthesize unto German Expressionism the main currents of modern art styles before World War One. This included significant borrowings from Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Cloisonnism, Synthetism, Symbolism, and Fauvism. Jawlensky, with Russian compatriot Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and German painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), among several others, pursued a decade-long dialogue of their individual experimentation, particularly in the lib