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Birth
1864 (Russia)
Death
1941
Lived/Active
Russian Federation
Self portrait
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Often Known For
mod painting
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Alexei Jawlensky was born in 1864, the son of a Russian Imperial Army colonel; he was sent to military school and commissioned as a lieutenant, but his mind was never far from art. In 1896, after studying at the Imperial Art Academy in St. Petersburg, he resigned his commission and set off to study art in Munich with fellow artist Marianne von Werefkin. So began a peripatetic existence in Germany, France, Russia, Italy and Switzerland that ended in 1922 when he finally settled in (showing 500 of 8191 characters). |
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