Jawlensky

American  

[you-len-skee] / yaʊˈlɛn ski /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Many of his landscapes seem particularly American, though the influence of French Impressionism peeks through the flora; his palette feels indebted to figures like Alexei Jawlensky and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; and one detects a camaraderie with the Color Field painters.

From The Wall Street Journal

‘Jawlensky and Kandinsky: The Milton Wichner Collection’ Works by these two seminal Modernist painters are on view through Oct.

From Los Angeles Times

McDonald’s golden arches, exuberant dancers in Russian folk tales, the refined spiritual abstractions of painter Alexei Jawlensky, gymnasts’ flips, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — convention in Tejda’s art is the equivalent of channel flipping on television or Internet surfing in the still-young digital world.

From Los Angeles Times

In the case of the painter Alexej von Jawlensky, for instance, Mr. Jägers has tested 75 paintings attributed to the artist over the years, 50 of which he found to be fakes.

From New York Times

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