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
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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