SOULMATES

Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin occupy a prominent place in art history as a pioneering artist couple of the avant-ga rde movement. Jawlensky met Werefkin in 1891 in Ilya Repin's Saint Petersburg studio and in 1896 they moved together to Munich where Werefkin gave up painting for almost ten years in order to nurture Jawlensky's talent. In 1909, they became founding members of the Neue Kunstlervereinigung Munchen, and then, in 1911, of the Blue Rider group alongside artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Mar c, and G...[Read more]