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Jawlensky

American  
[you-len-skee] / yaʊˈlɛn ski /

noun

  1. Alexej von 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.


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Jawlensky, with a Fauvist portrait, and Werefkin, with a moody landscape, are here, too, as is Münter’s Blue Rider colleague Franz Marc.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

German-born art dealer Galka Scheyer helped organize exhibitions that promoted a key group of 20th century artists known as the Blue Four: Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandinsky.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2017

Jawlensky died in 1941, at 77, and was buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery at Wiesbaden, Germany.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2017

In 1902, Jawlensky fathered a boy with Werefkin’s maid, Helene Nesnakomoff.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

Kandinsky, Gabriele, Marc and Kubin walked out on them, soon to be joined by Jawlensky, Campendonck, Klee and Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who at the time fancied himself a painter.

From Time Magazine Archive

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