Everything! – 100 years of Jawlensky in Wiesbaden
Special event on November 4, 2021
In June 1921, the Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) came to Wiesbaden for the first time and soon after decided to settle here. What happened in the years leading up to his death and how the collection of Jawlensky's works has grown to this day is the subject of the major anniversary exhibition "Everything! 100 Years of Jawlensky in Wiesbaden".
He had many successes. Alongside Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, he became part of the artist group "The Blue Four" and became popular in America. But at the end of the 1920s he became ill with arthritis, the National Socialists branded him "degenerate" and the Wiesbaden Museum gave away his works. After the war, Jawlensky became one of the city's identity-forming "sons"; his life was researched and his art collected.
Today, 111 of the artist's works are again in the museum's collection; they outline Jawlensky's entire oeuvre, from the expressive heads to the serial works, and are being presented in their entirety for the first time in the museum's history.
Our club visited this exhibition on November 4, 2021. Those present were: Wolfram and Marlies Ehrenthal, Siegfried and Waltraud Ehrler, Kurt and Ulrike Eisenacher, Frank Heckert, Erhard Jacobi, Ulf Kelterborn and Anne Huneck-Kelterborn, Bernd Korves and Katrin Korves-Schröder, Klaus and Monika Nüchter, Olaf and Petra Planken, Hans Quink, Hartmut and Ina Thiry. The exhibition visit was followed by a shared dinner in the "Mathilda" - restaurant and wine bar on Wiesbaden's Luisenplatz.
