
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.