Alexei Jawlensky

Exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York, 16 February 2017 - 29 May 2017

The lesser known artist of the Blaue Riter movement, Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941) was Russian, but lived in Germany much of his life and obtained German citizenship in 1934. He was a friend of Kandinsky, who he met in Munich when studying painting with Anton Azbè, and had close ties to the German Expressionist artists.
This exhibition catalogue illustrates how the artist was influenced, apart from the German Expressionnists, by van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse and the Fauves, and by Hodler. The book presents the chronological and thematic development of Jawlensky's art from early figure painting to landscapes and from still lives to the late iconic portraits and fascinating meditations.