Alexej von Jawlensky, part II

 

Dunkle Bäume über grünem Hang (1910)

oil on board 33 x 44.8 cm

Alexej von Jawlensky was a Russian-born painter who was active in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. He was a member of the Expressionist movement and is known for his colorful, abstract paintings of faces and figures. Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, Russia in 1864 and studied art in St. Petersburg before moving to Munich in 1896. He spent most of his career in Germany, where he became a prominent member of the Expressionist movement and exhibited his work widely. Jawlensky's work was heavily influenced by the Fauvist movement, and he is known for his bold use of color and expressive brushwork. He died in 1941 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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

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