Alexej Jawlensky – Grosses Stilleben: Stilleben auf schwarzem Hintergrund helles Glas mit rosa und roten Rosen 1937.
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Postcard with the work Grosses Stilleben: Stilleben auf schwarzem Hintergrund, helles Glas mit rosa und roten Rosen, 1937. by the painter Alexej Jawlensky, in connection with the Louisiana exhibition in 2025. In the last two decades of his life, it is the repetition of the motif that keeps him preoccupied.
Though closely associated with the European avant-garde movements at the beginning of the 20th century, the painter Alexej Jawlensky (1864-1941) seems to have found his very own artistic voice rather late in life. This exhibition focuses on Jawlensky's path towards a highly distinctive expression in the form of his small, beautiful and mysterious meditations devoted almost exclusively to painting the same subject over and over again; a face.
Alexej Jawlensky was born into a regimental family in Russia in 1864, and initially opted for a military career himself, which he, however, chose to abandon in favor of the arts. In 1889 he began studying at the art academy in St. Petersburg, where he met the painter Marianne von Werefkin, who became his partner and supporter for many years. Together, the couple moved to Munich, where Jawlensky attended a private painting school with, among others, Wassily Kandinsky.
The first chapter of the exhibition in fact focuses on Jawlensky's connection to the art scene in Munich at the beginning of the 20th century. Together with Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Werefkin, he settled for a period in Murnau in Upper Bavaria and developed his highly expressive landscape paintings here.
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