Alexei Jawlensky
By: edited by Vivian Endicott Barnett ; with preface by Ronald S. Lauder ; foreword by Renée Price ; and essays by Vivian Endicott Barnett [and three others]
Contributors: Jawlensky, Alexej von, 1864-1941; Barnett, Vivian Endicott, 1944- curator, editor, writer of supplementary textual content; Jawlensky Bianconi, Angelica, writer of supplementary textual content; Lauder, Ronald S., writer of preface; Price, Renée, writer of foreword; Zieglgänsberger, Roman, 1972- writer of supplementary textual content; Neue Galerie New York; Prestel Verlag
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783791356389
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Russian Painting; Expressionism (Art); Exhibitions
Description: 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 Vasily Kandinsky, who he met in Munich when studying painting with Anton Azbè, and had close ties to the German Expressionist 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 thematic development of Jawlensky's art from early figure painting to landscapes and from still lives to the late iconic portraits and fascinating meditations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Alexei Jawlensky" : February 16-May 29, 2017. Neue Galerie, New York, New York, United States.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Neue Galerie, New York, February 16-May 29, 2017.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Ronald S. Lauder; title: Foreword / Renée Price; title: Turning points in Jawlensky's art and life / Vivian Endicott Barnett; title: Of a captain and a helmsman : Jawlensky before Murnau / Roman Zieglgänsberger; title: Jawlensky's late work : painting in series / Jill Lloyd; title: Alexei Jawlensky : art is a yearning for God / Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi; title: Jawlensky and American collections, 1913-1945 / Vivian Endicott Barnett.