Andreas Jawlensky

ANDREAS JAWLENSKY (Anspoki, present-day Latvia, 1902 - Barga, 1984).
"Portrait."
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower margin.
Measurements: 50 x 40 cm; 64,5 x 54 cm (frame).

Andreas Jawlensky developed a painting clearly influenced by French Fauvism, which is evidenced in this synthetic portrait of a woman, on whose face the colors are freed from the representational or realistic orthodoxy.

Andreas Jawlensky was a Russian painter. He was the son of the painter Alekséi Jawlensky. In 1914 he participated for the first time in an exhibition in Malmö, Sweden. That same year his family had to move from Germany to Switzerland due to the First World War. In these years he participates with his father in exhibitions in Lausanne and Zurich, in the International Exhibition of the Arts in Venice, in the Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin and in an exhibition of Russian art in Hannover. In 1922 he moves to the city of Wiesbaden, where his parents finally marry. Exhibitions in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Bremen and Basel. Becomes a German citizen and enlists in the German army during World War II. Jawlensky is taken prisoner of war by the Red Army and incarcerated in the province of Brandenburg. Sentenced to death, his sentence is commuted to 25 years of hard labor. He would spend ten years in gulags in Siberia and the Urals. The Soviets released him in 1955. Some exhibitions of this decade are two joint exhibitions with his father at the Kleemann Gallery in New York and at the Dalzel Hatfield Gallery in Los Angeles, and another solo exhibition at the Alex Fiómel Gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1974 he obtains the Swiss nationality. Four years later he had an exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum.