Jawlensky, the artist in his quotes on painting, colors & life - free resource, German art history

Jawlensky in quotes - the Russian-born artist on his color-use, Soul + art, and his ‘Head’-paintings - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in German art history

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Jawlensky’s artist quotes inform us about his use of color and forms. Expression of the soul is for him the main goal for his painting art, see his painting the ‘Head’ at the right. Jawlensky was a Russian-born artist. He left Russia together with Marianne Werefkin; they settled in Munich in South Germany and got there involved with the German ‘Blaue Reiter’ artist-group and Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter. Jawlensky painted in that period in bright colors and very expressive.

Because of the outbreak of World War 1. Jawlensky was forced to go to Switzerland with Marianne Werefkin, where he spent the rest of his life. Because of a serious muscle disease, Jawlensky could not manage normal seize paintings later in his life. He started to paint small works on paper, his famous series ‘Variations’ and ‘Abstract Heads’. These works he saw as his visual statements of a spiritual content.
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Some selected artist-quotes of the Russian-born artist Jawlensky - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’To me apples, trees, human faces are not more than hints as to what else I should seen in them: the life of colour, comprehended by a passionate lover.’ - quote of Jawlensky, c. 1903-05: cited by W. D. Dube in ‘Expressionism’, p. 115

• ’I am now mainly painting faces and landscapes; I am obsessed day and night by the vision of faces and colours. And the spiritual vision is my mystical world.’ - quote from Jawlensky’s letter to his Russian brother Dimitri, c. 1917

• ’I now began to search for a new path in art (c. 1914). It was a major task… …I felt within myself, within my breast, the keyboard of an organ and I had to make it resonate. And the nature that was in front of me served me only as a prompter. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it resonate.’ - quote of Jawlensky, in his letter to P. W. Verkade, June 1938
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  selection of free art-resources on the Russian-born artist Jawlensky:

  • extended biographical notes of Jawlensky, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexej_von_Jawlensky
  • artist-quotes of and about Jawlensky, on wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexej_von_Jawlensky
  • many images of Jawlensky’s painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/alexej-von-jawlensky
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]