Variation

Russian-born German artist Alexej Von Jawlensky was an influential Expressionist painter who worked alongside fellow Russian-émigré Vassily Kandsinky as part of the influential Der Blaue Reiter artist group in Munich during the years leading up to World War I. Jawlensky experimented with the mystical intensity of color through increasingly abstract compositions. He synthesized the imagery of Russian icons and folk traditions with the Fauvist liberation of color to access universal truths and spiritual aspects. Following World War I, Jawlensky joined Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, to form a new artist group, Die Blaue Vier, which taught and promoted Blaue Reiter ideas and aesthetics in the United States and Mexico.

Germany