Alexei Jawlensky

1864, Torzhok Tver province - 1941, Wiesbaden (Germany). He studied at the IAH. In 1896 he moved to Munich. He studied it in school A. Aschbe, met in. Kandinsky, who met with the most significant influence on his work. He became an active figure in the Munich association "Blue Rider" based Kandinsky and F. Mark (1911). In 1890-1900-e traveled extensively in Europe, last visited Russia in 1914, later lived in Switzerland and Germany. Exhibitions since 1903. Unlike many members of the "Blue Rider", did not apply to abstraction, but remained within the description, in one form or another, assimilating the influence of Expressionism and Fauvism (A. Matisse). In the years of Nazism was denied the right to work, many works were confiscated. Suicide. Works are in major museums in the West, as well as in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; SRM, St. Petersburg, etc.. meetings.