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Marianne von Werefkin
Mariamna Vladimirovna Veryovkina, commonly known as Marianne von Werefkin, was a Russian-born painter, active in Germany and Switzerland during the late Belle Époque and interwar periods. She is particularly known for her Expressionist works.
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culture · Russian artist (1860–1938) · painter · artist · also Marianne von Werefkin, Marianna Vladimirovna Werefkin, Marianne Werefkin, Marianne Von Werefkin, Marianna Vladimirovna Werefkina, Marianna Vladimirovna Verevkina
Born 10 September 1860 · Died 6 February 1938 · Q464016
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
Fr: Marianne von Werefkin und Alexej von Jawlensky in Wiesbaden: Gemeinsam unabhängig zu sein
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1938· 1 entry
Died 1938-02-06.
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1928· 1 entry
Werefkin wrote and painted her Ascona Impressions, which she dedicated to the Zürich art critic Hans Trog (1864–1928)
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1925· 2 entries
In the Kunsthalle Bern, followed by further joint exhibitions, including in 1928 in the Berlin Galerie Nierendorf together with Christian Rohlfs, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Robert Genin
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For the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in which her impressions of a trip to Italy with Ernst Alfred Aye were subsequently printed
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1924· 1 entry
Werefkin was a co-founder of the artist group Der Große Bär (The Great Bear, after the constellation Ursa Major) in Ascona together with Walter Helbig, Ernst Frick, Albert Kohler and others
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1921· 1 entry
Jawlensky separated from Werefkin and moved to Wiesbaden, where in 1922 he married Werefkin's housekeeper Helene Nesnakomoff, the mother of his son Andreas
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1920· 1 entry
Some of Werefkin's works were shown at the Venice Biennale
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1919· 1 entry
Werefkin was involved in an exhibition "Painters of Ascona" in the Zürich Kunstsalon Wolfsberg together with Jawlensky, Robert Genin, Arthur Segal and Otto Niemeyer-Holstein
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1918· 1 entry
Werefkin and Jawlensky moved to Ascona on Lake Maggiore
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1916· 1 entry
There was a solo exhibition in Zürich, where the couple moved in September/October 1917
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1913· 1 entry
Werefkin and Jawlensky participated in the exhibition of the editors of Der Blaue Reiter in the Berlin gallery Der Sturm (The Storm) by Herwarth Walden
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1912· 1 entry
Werefkin and Jewlensky also left the N
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1909· 2 entries
The painting Zwillinge (Werefkin) (Twins) was created
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The Swiss painter Cuno Amiet, who at the time belonged to the Brücke (Bridge) artists' group, was a guest in Werefkin's salon
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1907· 1 entry
Werefkin created her first expressionist paintings
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1906· 1 entry
Werefkin travelled to France with Jawlensky, Nesnakomoff and son Andreas
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1902· 1 entry
Werefkin's lady's maid Nesnakomoff, then 17 years old, gave birth to a child from Jawlensky, named Andreas Nesnakomoff (died 1984 - named Andreas Jawlensky after his parents' marriage, later in life he would also become
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1897· 2 entries
Werefkin founded the Brotherhood of St
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Werefkin was in Venice with Ažbe, Jawlensky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Igor Grabar, initially to visit a Repin exhibition
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1896· 1 entry
After the death of Werefkin's father, which would provide Werefkin with a noble Tsarist pension of 7,000 rubles per annum, she moved to Munich with her 11-year old lady's maid Helene Nesnakomoff and Jawlensky
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1892· 1 entry
Werefkin entered into a 27-year relationship with Alexej von Jawlensky
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1888· 1 entry
Repin painted a portrait of Werefkin, following a hunting accident in which Werefkin accidentally shot her right hand, the painter's hand
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1880· 1 entry
Werefkin became a private student of Ilya Repin, the most important representative of the Peredvizhniki ("wandering painters"), who represented Russian Realism
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1874· 1 entry
Werefkin's talent for drawing was discovered
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-09-10.
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