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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Nude - Alexej von Jawlensky
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Beschreibung
A bold Expressionist study by Alexej von Jawlensky, featuring a reclining nude rendered in thick, expressive brushstrokes and high-contrast colours.
This work by Alexej von Jawlensky captures the artist's engagement with the expressive potential of colour and form during his time in Munich. Jawlensky, a member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, moved away from traditional representation to focus on the emotional resonance of his subjects. In this composition, the figure is rendered with bold, sweeping brushstrokes that prioritise the physical act of painting over anatomical precision.
The palette is characteristic of the artist's early twentieth-century output. He employs high-contrast hues, placing yellow against deep blues and earthy reds to create a sense of tension. The figure is reclined, yet the spatial depth is compressed, pushing the subject toward the surface of the board. This flattening of the image plane is a hallmark of the Expressionist movement, where the artist seeks to communicate a subjective experience rather than a literal transcription of reality.
Jawlensky's application of paint is thick and deliberate. Each stroke remains visible, contributing to the overall texture of the work. The dark outlines surrounding the figure serve to separate the form from the surrounding environment, a technique influenced by his interest in both folk art and the work of his contemporaries like Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. The figure's posture is relaxed, yet the intensity of the colour choices suggests a more complex psychological state. By reducing the human form to its essential components, Jawlensky invites the viewer to engage with the painting as a construction of light and pigment. This piece offers a clear example of the transition toward abstraction that defined much of his later career, particularly in his series of meditative heads and landscapes.
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- Museum-grade giclée printing for rich, fade-resistant colour
- Archival matte fine-art paper, FSC-certified
- Multiple sizes and framing options available
- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
- Framed prints arrive ready to hang
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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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Nude - Alexej von Jawlensky
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Ab £37.00 GBP
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Ab £37.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
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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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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