Saturday, February 2, 2013

German Expressionism: Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864 – 1941)


Sunset, 1904


Garden Path in Carantec, circa 1905



Station at Füssen in March, 1905



Cornfield, 1905



Landscape with Small Wood, 1905


Landschaft aus Caranteque (1905-06)


Wasserburg am Inn (circa 1906)


Landscape with Red Roof - Wasserburg, circa 1906



Green Trees, 1906


 Um (1906)



Wasserburg, 1906



Village in Bavaria, 1907



Mediterranean Coast, 1907


Yellow Sound, 1908


Murnau Village, 1908


Summer Evening in Murnau, ca 1908


Murnau in High Summer, 1908


The Yellow House, 1909


Schokko with a Red Hat (1909)


Stillleben mit Blumen und Orangen, c. 1909


Big Clouds, Big Trees (1909)


Murnau - Landscape, Orange Cloud (1909)


Blue Mountain (1910)


Murnau, 1910


Wasserburger Landschaft


Factory at Oberau, 1910


Floating Cloud


The Factory, 1910


Girl with the Green Face, 1910


Landscape (1914)

Mystischer Kopf: Frauenkopf auf blauem Grund (1917)


Mystischer Kopf: Frauenkopf auf rotem Grund (1917)

 The Young Christ, 1919
Oil on canvas, LA County Museum


Head of a Woman “Medusa” (1923)

Self-Portrait, 1930, oil on board, 51.5 x 50.2 cm

Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (1864 – 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München), Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group and later the Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four).
Paintings by von Jawlensky are displayed in galleries and museums around the world. The Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, Germany, maintains a collection of exceptional depth.The largest collection of works by von Jawlensky is kept at the Museum Wiesbaden, which owns more than 90 works of the artist, and forms the most important collection of his work in Europe

1 comment:

  1. A great artist who's work after the first world war never again touched his pre war heights. He always said he didn't feel the same .

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