biography of Alexej VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941)
Personal data
Birth : 03/13/1864 - Torschok, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Death : 03/15/1941 - Wiesbaden, Germany
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Representatives
Galerie Thomas – Maximilianstrasse 25 – Munich, Germany
Education
Pupil of / student of Il’ia Efimovich REPIN [ 1844-1930 ]
1896 : Azbè-Schule – Munich, Germany
Friend of Wassily KANDINSKY 瓦西里•康定斯基 [ 1866-1944 ]
Professional data
Work and Life
1938:Stopped painting, Germany
1934:Forbidden by the National Socialists to exhibit his work, Germany
1929:Crippled by arthristis, Germany
1924:Part of Die blauen Vier Group
1922:Married Hélène Nesnakomoff, Germany
1921:Moved to Wiesbaden, Germany
1916:Met Emmy Scheyer, Germany
1914:Moved to Saint-Prex, Switzerland
1911:Part of Blaue Reiter, Germany
1911:Met Van Dongen, Paris, France
1909:Part of NKVM Neue Künstlervereiningung München, Munchen, Germany
1907 – 1909:Spent summers with Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, Murnau, Germany
1907:Worked with Matisse, Paris, France
1904:First time saw a Painting of Gauguin
1903:Met Kubin in Paris, France
1902:Decided to work alone
1896:Moved to Munchen, Germany
1891 – 1921:Met and lived with Marianne von Werefkin
1889:Officer of the Imperial Guard and pupil of Art Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Work
Categorie and medium
Painting : Oil/board - Oil/canvas - Oil/paper 
Print-Multiple : Lithograph 
Drawing-Watercolor : Chalk - Charcoal - Gouache - Ink - Pastel - Pencil - Watercolour Subject
still lifelandscape
portrait
Artistic periods
1921-1935 : Painting Series of Constructivist (or Abstract) Heads, Germany1918-1920 : Painting Series of Savior's Faces, Germany
1917-1919 : Painting Series of Mystical Heads, Germany
1911 : Paintings of North Sea Landscapes
1907 : Met Verkade and Sérusier, and influenced by Symbolism and Gauguin
1905 : Still-life with vivid colours
1905-1910 : Influenced by Fauvism
1913 : Paintings were still close to Fauvism and German Expressionism, and influenced by Russian Icons.
At first, influenced by Van Gogh and Cézanne
Movements and styles
Der blaue ReiterAbstraction
German Expressionism (Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter)
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2002
Icons for a New Era: The Spiritual abstractions of Alexej Jawlensky
Long Beach Museum of Art – Long Beach CA, United States
06/15/2002 – 04/06/2003
Meditationen
Museum für Neue Kunst – Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
03/22/2002 – 05/26/2002
2001
Meditations
Galerie Thomas – Munich, Germany
11/15/2001 – 12/22/2001
1995
Retrospective
Musée Rath – Geneva GE, Switzerland
1995
Retrospective
Palazzo Reale – Milan MI, Italy
1995
1983
Alexej Jawlensky 1864-1941
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus – Munich, Germany
02/23/1983 – 04/17/1983
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2004
Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Leonard Hutton Galleries – 41 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
2003
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Leonard Hutton Galleries – 41 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
Art Cologne, n° 37
Cologne, Germany
10/29/2003 – 11/02/2003
Represented by : Galerie Margret Heuser – Gartenstrasse 41 – Düsseldorf, Germany
Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Art Focus – Talstrasse 16 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
Art Chicago 2003
Navy Pier’s Festival Hall – Chicago IL, United States
05/09/2003 – 05/12/2003
Represented by : Peter Findlay Gallery – 41 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
2002
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Leonard Hutton Galleries – 41 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Art Focus – Talstrasse 16 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
2001
Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Art Focus – Talstrasse 16 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
Artpalmbeach – 4th Modern & Contemporary Art Fair
International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches – West Palm Beach FL, United States
01/10/2001 – 01/15/2001
Represented by : Leonard Hutton Galleries – 41 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
1999
Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Brockstedt – Magdalenenstrasse 11 – Hamburg, Germany
1905
Berliner Secession
Berlin, Germany
1905
Salon d’Automne, n°3
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris – Paris, France
1905
1903
Secession
Wiener Secession – Vereinigung bildender Künstler – Vienna, Austria
1903
Group exhibitions
2004
Picasso, Chagall, Jawlensky, Soutine
Kunstmuseum Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
02/14/2004 – 05/02/2004
2002
My Four Blue Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
Norton Simon Museum of Art – Pasadena CA, United States
12/13/2002 – 04/14/2003
2001
Jawlensky and his contemporaries
Fondation de l’Hermitage – Lausanne VD, Switzerland
01/26/2001 – 05/13/2001
1954
Collection Graindorge
Van AbbeMUSEUM – Eindhoven, Netherlands
1954
Collection Fernand Graindorge
Kunsthalle Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
08/28/1954 – 10/03/1954
1913
Erste deutsche Herbstsalon
Galerie Sturm – Berlin, Germany
1913
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