Special envoy to Roubaix
After having been mounted in Madrid (Mapfre Foundation) then in Marseille (Cantini Museum), the exhibition devoted to the work of Alexej von Jawlensky ends in apotheosis in the vast and colorful volumes of the La Piscine museum in Roubaix.
Nearly 130 oils or drawings: there is no longer any reason to ignore the work of this rare artist in France, to be ranked among the German expressionists although he was born in Imperial Russia (in 1864) and was trained first in Moscow then at the St. Petersburg Academy.
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Member of the Munich avant-garde group Nouvelle Association des artistes, soon to be re-founded as Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter), and in the wake of Kandinsky, Jawlensky advocates interiority through pure shapes and colors.
A Franz Marc or an Emil Nolde are among his friends.
He communicates with them in the same palette.
Just like with Paul Klee, present here through his
Vieille Fille (portrait of Galka Scheyer)
from 1932. On the French side, he knows nothing about it
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