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  Biographie: Alexej von Jawlensky, 1864-1941
Entsprechend der Familientradition kommt Jawlensky an eine Kadettenschule in Moskau.
Aus Unzufriedenheit mit der Akademieausbildung übersiedelt Jawlensky mit den befreundeten Malern Igor Grabar (1871-1960) und Dimitri Kardowsky (1866-1943) sowie Werefkin und Nesnakomoff nach München.
Auf der von Herwarth Walden (1878-1941) organisierten Futuristen- und Expressionisten-Ausstellung in Budapest und Lemberg (heute: Lwow, Ukraine) werden 41 Gemälde von Jawlensky gezeigt.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky Biography
Jawlensky only began his artistic training in 1889 in St. Petersburg after a career as an officer in the tsarist army.
Jawlensky suffered from a progressing paralysis and had difficulties in painting.
At the beginning Jawlensky's style was influenced by the Fauves, particularly by Matisse, but the artist soon discovered his own, Expressionist style, which is characterised by strong colours and simple forms.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky - Wikipedia
Schließlich gab er seine militärische Laufbahn auf, um sich ganz der Malerei zu widmen und zog 1896 mit Marianne von Werefkin nach München, wo er in der Malschule von Anton Azbé mit Wassily Kandinsky zusammentraf.
Etwa von 1906 bis 1908 wandelte sich der Stil Jawlenskys in Folge mehrerer Aufenthalte in Wasserburg und Murnau, wo er gemeinsam mit Werefkin,Münter und Kandinsky einige Sommer verbrachte.
Werke Alexej von Jawlensky - Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf
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Aus Unzufriedenheit mit der Akademieausbildung in Russland übersiedelte Jawlensky mit zwei befreundeten Malern sowie mit Marianne von Werefkin und Helene Nesnakomoff nach München.
Marianne von Werefkin gab das Malen auf und protegierte Jawlenskys Malerkarriere.
Nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten erhielt Jawlensky 1933 Ausstellungsverbot in Deutschland.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky Biografie
Jawlensky lässt sich danach endgültig in Wiesbaden nieder.
Von den Nationalsozialisten wird der Künstler 1933 mit Ausstellungsverbot belegt.
Von den Fauves und hier besonders von Matisse, wird sein Stil anfänglich beeinflusst.
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 Jawlensky in der Schweiz
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941) gehörte wie seine Freunde Klee und Kandinsky zu den Pionieren der modernen Malerei.
Jawlensky begann diese Werkfolge in Ascona, wohin er 1918 aus gesundheitlichen Gründen übersiedeln musste.
Jawlensky umreisst diese Begegnungen in seinen «Lebenserinnerungen» in knappen, immer aber persönlich gefärbten Bemerkungen.
www.kunsthaus.ch /ausstellungen/2000/Jawlensky/Jawdata/ohneFl3.html   (1103 words)

  
 Alexej von Jawlensky - AMAM
Jawlensky achieved a synthesis of emotionality and sublimation, of sensuality and abstraction in these portraits.
Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky.
Alexej von Jawlensky, "Memoir dictated to Lisa Kümmel, 1937," in Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky
Het vroege werk van de in Rusland geboren en in 1941 in Duitsland gestorven schilder Alexej von Jawlensky is het meest bekend.
Jawlensky staat onder invloed van zijn (Russisch) orthodoxe achtergrond; de theosofie (de universele geleerde Steiner is in opkomst); de spirituele ideeën van Kandinsky en de schilder/monnik Eduard Verkade (zoon van de chocoladefabrikant).
Jawlensky gelooft in een innerlijk licht en in de alomtegenwoordigheid van het Goddelijke.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky
In diesem Sommer gewann Jawlensky aus der Strenge der Komposition seine grosszügigen Landschaften.
Jawlensky reiste 1911 zum letzten Male nach Paris und traf mit Matisse und van Dongen zusammen.
Hier meditierte er fortan in kleinen Formaten und in zahllosen Variationen über ein Landschaftsmotiv und das menschliche Gesicht und formte darin einen ruhigen Ausdruck von Religiosität und Verinnerlichung.
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 Alexej Jawlensky
Jawlensky malte in den ersten Jahren in München hauptsächlich Stilleben in einem Stil, der von Vincent van Gogh und Paul Cezanne beeinflußt war.
In den Sommermonaten pflegte Jawlensky nach Rußland, Frankreich oder Italien zu reisen.
Von starken preußischblauen Konturen gebändigt, leuchtet vor blauem Hintergrund das zusammengeballte Rot, das den nahezu quadratischen Rahmen bis zum Bersten füllt.
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 MyStudios -Artist Biographies Sponsored by Barewalls
Alexei von Jawlensky was born in Kuslovso, Russia.
Jawlensky's meeting with Kandinsky was to have a profound effect on the young painter's artistic sensibilities.
Jawlensky incorporated Matisse 's powerful use of pure color in his landscapes, still lives and portraits.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) was one of the important contributors to Expressionism, to which he added a meditative, or inward reflective, component of unique power.
There he met the painter Marianna von Werefkin, the daughter of a general, who was to devote a large part of her life to encouraging and furthering Jawlensky's career as an artist.
In 1924 she formed the "Blue Four" consisting of Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee, and Lyonel Feininger to introduce the works of these artists to the United States; she organized--primarily in California--a number of exhibits, gave lectures, and represented the artists until her death in 1945.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky
Il pittore espressionista Alexej von Jawlensky nacque da una famiglia aristocratica russa, originaria della Germania, i cui membri maschili erano, da lunga tradizione, avviati alla carriera militare.
Jawlensky vi giunse nel 1896 con la pittrice russa Marianna von Werefkin, artista già affermata con cui condividerà una profonda esperienza umana ed artistica per molto tempo, e con Helene Nesnakomoff, aiutante della Werefkin, che sposerà molti anni più tardi e che gli darà un figlio, Andreas, nel 1902.
Jawlensky diventerà così il precursore della pittura seriale, eseguita soprattutto dopo la seconda guerra mondiale dagli artisti americani.
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 Fondation de l'Hermitage - Alexej von Jawlensky
This exhibition focuses on the years Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) spent in Switzerland from 1914 to 1921.
Jawlensky’s exile in Switzerland during the First World War brought about a major reorientation of his work as he explains himself in his memoirs: "When I first arrived in Saint-Prex I intended to continue working as I had in Munich.
Jawlensky is the only artist of his time to have so completely abandoned the idea of the uniqueness of the masterpiece.
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 Expressionismus | Alexej von Jawlensky
Jawlensky war zuerst russischer Gardeoffizier und wurde Schüler von Ilja Repin an der St. Petersburger Akademie.
Er gab seine militärische Laufbahn auf, um sich ganz der Malerei zu widmen, und zog 1896 mit Marianne von Werefkin nach München, wo er in der Malschule von Anton Azbe mit Wassily Kandinsky zusammentraf.
Nachdem er sich 1919 von Werefkin trennte, ging er 1921 nach Wiesbaden, wo er bis zu seinem Tod lebte.
www.deutsche-expressionisten.de /kuenstler/jawlensky/jawlensky.html   (333 words)

  
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Den Namen Alexej von Jawlensky verbindet man mit Landschaften, Bildnissen und Stilleben, die von einer einzigartigen expressiven Farbenpracht zeugen.
Jawlensky, der nur eine stark vom Naturbild abstrahierende Malerei bevorzugte, ist in Rußland bis auf den heutigen Tag fast unbekannt.
Sie stellt eine biographische Abhandlung über Jawlensky dar, von seiner Kindheit in Rußland über die Jahre der Emigration und seine Beteiligung an der "Blauen Vier" bis hin zu der Zeit in Wiesbaden.
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 CARE - Explore Art ~ Red Blossom
Alexej von Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, Russia on March 26, 1864.
It was here that Jawlensky saw paintings for the first time and he knew at once that wanted to become an artist.
Jawlensky chose to paint this way because he thought it was more important to show emotions and feeling through colors than to copy reality.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky - Reproduction Oil Paintings & Reproduction Art
Jawlensky was born into an aristocratic family 1864 in Torzhok province, Russia.
Jawlensky is known for his important contribution to Expressionist painting using a combination of color and form.
Ill health plagued Jawlensky towards the end of his life and large medical bills took a toll on his financial situation.
www.museum-reproductions.com /AZ/Alexej-von-Jawlensky.shtml   (191 words)

  
 Alexej Von Jawlensky (0856674869) JAWLENSKY - Philip Wilson Publishers
Jawlensky's watercolours and drawings are considerably less well known than his oil paintings.
Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky and Angelica Jawlensky-Bianconi are responsible for the Alexej von Jawlensky Archive.
This second volume of the catalogue of the oil paintings of Alexej von Jawlensky covers the artist\'s superbly exciting middle period, from his enforced departure from Munich in 1914 up to 1933, when the Nazis banned his work from exhibition.
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 Alexej Jawlensky - Biography
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (March 13, 1864 — March 15, 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany.
In 1896 he moved to Munich where he met Wassily Kandinsky, and Marianne von Werefkin, other Russian artists.
Jawlensky died in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 15, 1941.
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 Details
A portrait of Jawlensky, executed by her is existing among the photo documents at the Jawlensky-Archive in Locarno.
Jawlensky was consistent his progression towards abstraction, which reveals his quest for the primal image, in dealing with all three thematic groupings – the variations, the constructive heads and the meditations.
Jawlensky, who kept on re-using forms, once found, as prefabricated elements in his compositions, attained his aim via color and did this so brilliantly that the variations, as formally similar as they are, are always open to new interpretation.
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 Alexej von Jawlensky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After a few years of military training, he became interested in painting, visiting the Moscow World Exposition c.
In 1896 he moved to Munich where he met Wassily Kandinsky, and Marianne von Werefkin, other Russian artists and helped form the Neue Künstlervereinigung München.
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.
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Throughout his career, Jawlensky often returned to the subject of the face as a means of exploring the range of human emotion.
Jawlensky eventually started an affair with Helene, with whom he had a son Andreas born in 1902.
Jawlensky's reliance upon colour as a means of visual expression derived from the examples of the Fauve painters working in France.
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 Jawlensky, Alexej von Secret Encyclopaedia of Art Gnomiz
Although Jawlensky is most frequently identified with the German Expressionist painters, he never aligned himself exclusively with any twentieth century stylistic movement.
Although Jawlensky's early works were influenced by the Fauves as well as the German Expressionists, he believed his art mirrored a spirituality found in his own past: "Every artist works in a tradition," he wrote.
Alexej Von Jawlensky : Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings 1934-1937 by Maria Jawlensky, et al.
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 CARE - Explore Art ~ Meditation
Alexej von Jawlensky was born in Russia on March 26, 1864, but spent most of his life in Germany.
He did not approve of the style that Jawlensky and many other artists were using in their artwork.
Jawlensky was very upset about this, but he continued to paint anyway.
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 Jawlensky, Alexej von 1864-1941 books, find the lowest prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Alexej Jawlensky : [Pinacoteca Comunale, Casa Rusca, 3 Settembre-19 Novembre 1989]
by Alexej Von Jawlensky, Herbert Eichhorn, Stadtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Lieselotte Hahn
Jawlensky in Der Schweiz 1914-1921 : Begegnungen Mit Arp, Hodler, Janco, Klee, Lehmbruck, Richter, Taeuber-Arp Kunsthaus Zurich; Fondation De L'Hermitage, Lausanne; Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg
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 Alexei Jawlensky (1864 - 1941) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Alexei Jawlensky originally served in the Russian Imperial Guard before deciding to pursue an art career.
Jawlensky then traveled to Paris in 1913, and adopted Cubism after seeing the work of Matisse and Picasso.
Alexej von Jawlensky, Geneigter Kopf mit geschlossenen Augen (Inclined Head with Closed Eyes), circa 1922
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 Amazon.ca: Alexej Von Jawlensky: Books: Maria Jawlensky,Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky,Lucia Jawlensly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The third and final volume of the Catalogue Raissonne of the oil paintings of Alexej von Jawlensky contains 807 works including addenda to the first two volumes, with virtually every work illustrated in colour.
The culmination of this period, and of Jawlensky's entire oeuvre, is the series of "Meditations," intense, small-format works in which the rigour of the "Abstract Heads" is taken to the furthest extreme, but is suffused with even greater radiance.
This catalogue is preceded by a general evalutaion of the artist and an essay on the "Meditations" by Angelica Jawlensky, plus a list of works confiscated by the Nazis, and selected correspondance between Jawlensky and his representative in the USA Galka Scheyer.
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 Alexei Jawlensky Online
Alexei Jawlensky in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Alexei Jawlensky copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
All images and text on this Alexei Jawlensky page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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