Alexej von Jawlensky, Oberstdorf, 1912
Alexej von Jawlensky, Coast scene with red hill, 1911
Alexej von Jawlensky, Bunter Berg im Tal bei Oberstdorf, 1912
Alexej von Jawlensky, Coast scene with red hill, 1911
Alexej von Jawlensky, Floating Cloud, 1909-10
Alexej von Jawlensky, Green Trees, 1906
Alexej von Jawlensky, Variation, 1916 Alexej von Jawlensky, Murnau, 1908
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (1864 – 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany.
He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München),
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group and later the Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four).
He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München),
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group and later the Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four).

Self-portrait, 1905
"I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Figuratively speaking,
it was like this: In my heart I felt as if there were an organ, which I had to sound. And nature, which
I saw before me, only prompted me. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it sound...
it was like this: In my heart I felt as if there were an organ, which I had to sound. And nature, which
I saw before me, only prompted me. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it sound...
They are songs without words."
Alexej von Jawlensky, Lebenserinnerungen, 1938
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