Jawlensky

American  

[you-len-skee] / yaʊˈlɛn ski /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Smitten by its landscape, its light and its colorful dwellings, she bought a cottage there, which was both a place of solace and, initially, a gathering point for sharing ideas and painting with Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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