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Soulmates : Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin

Title

Soulmates : Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin / edited by Roman Zieglgänsberger, Annegret Hoberg, and Matthias Mühling ; with contributions by Mara Folini (with 7 others) ; in cooperation with Alexej von Jawlensky-Archiv S.A., Muralto, CH Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna - Fondazione Marianne Werefkin, Ascona, CH.

Publication

Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag, [2019]
Trento, Italy : Printer Trento S.r.l.
©2019

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Description

317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs; 30 cm

Summary

This book traces the lives of Expressionist artists Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin and how their relationship influenced and inspired each other's career. Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin occupy a prominent place in art history as a pioneering artist couple of the avant-garde movement. Early in her career in Russia, Werefkin attracted a great deal of attention for her Realist-inspired portraiture. 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 1906, the two artists travelled to France where Werefkin began to paint again, this time in her signature Expressionist style. Jawlensky, equally inspired by the trip and his contact with the fauvists, began to paint in a more Abstract style and with more expressive color. In 1909, they became founding members of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, and then, in 1911, of the Blue Rider group alongside artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Gabriele Münter. During World War I, Jawlensky and Werefkin moved to Switzerland where their relationship ended. This is the first book to focus on the two artists' partnership through all the various ups and downs of the many years of their relationship. Through explorations of both Jawlensky and Werefkin's oeuvres, this book shows how the two made vital contributions to modernism in the 20th century, both individually and as a couple.
"Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) and Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) have entered the canon as one of the great pioneering couples of avantgarde art. In life as in art, they were bound together for nearly thirty years. This catalogue and exhibition are the first to turn the spotlight on the many different facets of their relatinoship, including the mutual devotion, the times of tension, and the intesnity with which they shared their artistic ideas and painterly innovations. Weaving together Jawlensky's expressive palette and Werefkin's figurative renditions of emotional undercurrents with works that postdate their separation, the opulently illustrated catalogue section unfurls a magnificent panorama of a truly remarkable pair."

Alternative Title

Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.
Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
Illustrated works.

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany, 22 October 2019-16 February 2020; Museum Wiesbaden--Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst un Natur, Wiesbaden, Germany, 13 March-12 July 2020; and at Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, Switzerland, 2 August-8 November 2020--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-311).

Language (note)

Text in English, translated from the German.

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Biography of a Couple: Jawlensky and Werefkin--Shared and Separate Paths -- "No thunderstorms, no steady rain, no cloudbursts" Soulmates--Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin and Their Artistic Development -- I. Munich 1896-1906 -- Jawlensky and Werefkin--The First Decade in Munich -- Conversation as a Medium--Werefkin's "Pink Salon" and Her Self-Image as an Artist, 1896-1906 -- II. Munich, Murnau, Prerow, and Oberstdorf 1907-1914 -- Jawlensky and Wrefkin--In the Circle of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München and the Blue Rider -- III. Together in Switzerland (Saint-Prex, Zurich, Ascona) 1914-1921 -- From Residents of Munich by Choice to "Enemy-State Foreigners" and Exiles: The Outbreak of World War I and the Situation of Russian Artists in Germany and Switzerland -- Jawlensky and Werefkin--New Beginnings, Encounters, and Endings: Notes on their Swiss Years Together between 1914 and 1921 -- IV. Separate Paths--Werefkin in Ascona and Jawlensky in Wiesbaden 1921-1941 -- The Ticino of Marianne von Werefkin--The Art of Life under the Open Sky and Stars -- The Cathedral Spire--Alexej von Jawlensky in Wiesbaden -- V. The LEtters in Vilnius -- New Finds on the Artist Couple Jawlensky and Werefkin in Russian Letters -- The Correspondence between Manya and Lulu in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius -- Appendix.

Call Number

JQF 20-982

ISBN

9783791359328
3791359320
9783886452019
3886452018
9783791369747
3791369741

OCLC

1138471582

Title

Publisher

Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag, [2019]

Manufacturer

Trento, Italy : Printer Trento S.r.l.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-311).

Event

"Soulmates: Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin" : October 22, 2019-February 16, 2020, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany.

"Soulmates: Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin" : March 13-July 12, 2020, Museum Wiesbaden--Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst un Natur, Wiesbaden, Germany.

"Soulmates: Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin" : August 2-November 8, 2020, Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, Switzerland.

Language

Text in English, translated from the German.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Place of Publication

Germany Bavaria Munich.

United Kingdom England London

United States New York (State) New York.

Italy Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trento.

Added Author

Zieglgänsberger, Roman, 1972- editor.

Hoberg, Annegret, editor.

Mühling, Matthias, editor.

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.

Museum Wiesbaden, issuing body, organizer, host institution.

Ascona (Switzerland). Museo comunale d'arte moderna, issuing body, organizer, host institution.

Prestel Verlag, publisher.

Research Call Number

JQF 20-982

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