ALEXEI JAWLENSKY

Alexei Jawlensky (18641941) was Russian, but lived in Germany much of his life and obtained German citizenship in 1934. He was a fr iend of Vasily Kandinsky, who he met in Munich when studying painting with Anton Azbè, and had close ties to the German Expressionis t artists. This book illustrates how the artist was influenced, apart from the German Expressionists, by the art of Vincent van Gogh , Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and by Ferdinand Hodler. The book presents the chronological and themati c develop...[Llegir més]