Jawlensky

American  

[you-len-skee] / yaʊˈlɛn ski /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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 made about a thousand of these paintings, titled “Meditations,” between 1934 and 1937, in Wiesbaden.

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