Jawlensky
Americannoun
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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
Before the war ended, Jawlensky began subjecting the violently expressive heads for which he was best known to the same treatment he’d given his garden view, to dizzying effect.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
Jawlensky was associated with a group of painters that included, most notably, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc, who met in Munich around the turn of the twentieth century.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
From birth, Alexei Jawlensky, son of a Czarist colonel, was pointed toward a military career.
From Time Magazine Archive
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