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Half-nude figure with long hair sitting bent - Alexej von Jawlensky
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Description
An expressive portrait by Alexej von Jawlensky, featuring bold, non-naturalistic colours and simplified forms that capture a moment of quiet introspection.
Alexej von Jawlensky, a central figure in the Expressionist movement, produced this work during a period of intense stylistic development. The painting displays his characteristic approach to the human form, where anatomical accuracy is secondary to the emotional resonance of colour and brushwork. Jawlensky, having moved from Russia to Munich, became deeply involved with the Neue Künstlervereinigung München and later maintained associations with Der Blaue Reiter. His work from this era often features simplified, almost mask-like facial features and a deliberate rejection of traditional perspective. The figure is rendered with broad, confident strokes. The palette is non-naturalistic, employing jarring contrasts between the green tones of the skin and the warm, earthy reds of the background. This choice of colour serves to detach the subject from a specific time or place, pushing the viewer to focus on the psychological state of the sitter. The bent posture of the figure creates a sense of introspection, while the long, dark hair frames the face, adding a rhythmic quality to the composition. Jawlensky often returned to the theme of the human head and figure, refining his technique to achieve a synthesis of form and colour that borders on the abstract. This print captures the texture of the original oil on board, preserving the visible brushwork and the raw energy of the application. The composition is balanced through the interplay of vertical lines in the hair and the diagonal tilt of the torso. By stripping away extraneous detail, Jawlensky directs attention to the essential presence of the subject. This piece is a clear example of the artist's move toward a more subjective, internalised mode of representation, which defined his output in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Half-nude figure with long hair sitting bent - Alexej von Jawlensky
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Fine Art Framed / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / Black frame
Artist Biography
Alexej Von Jawlensky
By 1934, arthritis had locked Jawlensky's fingers and elbows. He clamped the brush between both hands, arms outstretched, and painted roughly a thousand small canvases he called Meditations. They are among the most concentrated devotional images in modern art, produced by a man who could barely move.
Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, Russia, in 1864, the fifth child of a military family. He trained as an officer in the Imperial Guard before abandoning that career in 1889 to study painting under Ilya Repin in St Petersburg. His patron and companion Marianne von Werefkin, herself a successful painter, financed their move to Munich in 1896. There he met Kandinsky, beginning a friendship that would shape both their careers.
Matisse, Van Gogh and Gauguin all pushed Jawlensky toward bolder colour, but his real catalyst was a trip to Provence in 1905 that convinced him colour could carry spiritual weight without representational accuracy. Back in Munich he produced intense, mask-like portraits: the Mystical Heads (1917 to 1919) and Saviour's Faces (1918 to 1920) drew directly on Russian Orthodox icon traditions from his childhood. He studied theosophy, yoga and Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, seeking a synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritual practice through paint.
He co-founded the New Munich Artists' Association with Kandinsky and later joined Der Blaue Reiter. In 1924, Emmy Scheyer (whom Jawlensky nicknamed "Galka", Russian for jackdaw) abandoned her own painting career to promote his work in America, forming Die Blaue Vier with Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee and Feininger. The First World War had already forced Jawlensky from Germany to Switzerland; he returned to Wiesbaden in 1921 and stayed until his death in 1941, increasingly isolated as the Nazis classified his work as degenerate.
Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, Russia, in 1864, the fifth child of a military family. He trained as an officer in the Imperial Guard before abandoning that career in 1889 to study painting under Ilya Repin in St Petersburg. His patron and companion Marianne von Werefkin, herself a successful painter, financed their move to Munich in 1896. There he met Kandinsky, beginning a friendship that would shape both their careers.
Matisse, Van Gogh and Gauguin all pushed Jawlensky toward bolder colour, but his real catalyst was a trip to Provence in 1905 that convinced him colour could carry spiritual weight without representational accuracy. Back in Munich he produced intense, mask-like portraits: the Mystical Heads (1917 to 1919) and Saviour's Faces (1918 to 1920) drew directly on Russian Orthodox icon traditions from his childhood. He studied theosophy, yoga and Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, seeking a synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritual practice through paint.
He co-founded the New Munich Artists' Association with Kandinsky and later joined Der Blaue Reiter. In 1924, Emmy Scheyer (whom Jawlensky nicknamed "Galka", Russian for jackdaw) abandoned her own painting career to promote his work in America, forming Die Blaue Vier with Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee and Feininger. The First World War had already forced Jawlensky from Germany to Switzerland; he returned to Wiesbaden in 1921 and stayed until his death in 1941, increasingly isolated as the Nazis classified his work as degenerate.
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