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Murnau, Alexej von Jawlensky
Murnau, 1910

Alexej von Jawlensky

1864–1941 · Expressionism · 1 work

Alexej von Jawlensky was a Russian painter who worked in Munich. In January 1909 he was among the first members of the New Artists’ Association Munich, founded in the salon of Marianne von Werefkin. He and Werefkin often spent summers at Murnau with Kandinsky and Münter. When the war began in 1914, he had to leave Germany.

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Artist information: National Gallery of Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

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