Wiesbaden alexej von jawlensky biography

Alexey Georgievich Yavlensky (German Alexej von Jawlensky; March 25, 1864, Tver Province - March 15, 1941, Wiesbaden) - expressionist artist, who was born and raised in Russia, but became a famous artist in Germany, where he lived most of his life.

Features of the artist Alexei Yavlensky: the artist went through a passion for avant-garde trends - post-impressionism, cubism, fauvism.

Never imitating and not blindly using tricks, Yavlensky tried on various visual languages to his view of the world. As part of the New Art Association and "Blue Rider"Yavlensky - expressionist: bright, contrasting colors, simplified forms without volume, painterly planes filled with pure tone, and the desire to express inner experiences with painterly means.

Searching for the whole cosmos and meanings in human faces, Yavlensky more and more focuses on the portrait, writes several cycles of “heads”: portraits of acquaintances, then impersonal “Mystical heads”, “Abstract heads”. In the last portrait cycle Alexej von Jawlensky (13.03.1864 - 15.03.1941) - Biography ... LOG