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拍品专文
Landschaft embodies the experimental approach to colour that Alexej von Jawlensky achieved in the breakthrough landscapes he created at Murnau. This small, sleepy market town, nestled in the shadows of the Bavarian Alps, had become a haven for Jawlensky and his artistic colleagues Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Marianne von Werefkin during the summer of 1908, with the foursome returning again and again over the following two years to spend extended sojourns in the serene, idyllic setting. During this time, the four artists often worked together in a communal manner, frequently painting the same scenes from different viewpoints, and pursuing similar stylistic experiments in their work. It was Jawlensky who took the lead in guiding the quartet’s evolution at this time, with both Münter and Kandinsky portraying him as the group’s mentor in their memoirs. Sharing his knowledge of the French avant-garde with his fellow painters, Jawlensky encouraged them to develop a free and expressive handling of colour and form in their work, inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh, the Fauves and the Nabis.
The drama and natural beauty of the broad expanses of the Murnau landscapes provided Jawlensky and his fellow artists with a compelling visual environment, and the sweeping Bavarian landscape featured heavily in their output from this time. Executed in intense, luminous swathes of colour, the rich pigments of Landschaft imbue the scene with an emphatic vitality. Jawlensky conveys the brightness and clarity of the sky through thick, bold strokes of pure blue pigment, which reflects in the lush green grass below, vividly illustrating Jawlensky’s use of complementary colours to build his compositions. Perfectly capturing the spirit of the landscape, the artist conveys not only his own sensations of awe before the scene, but also introduces a spiritual dimension to the subject, in which the sweeping vista becomes a portal to a greater understanding and appreciation of nature, a concept the artist would continue to explore throughout the rest of his career.
The drama and natural beauty of the broad expanses of the Murnau landscapes provided Jawlensky and his fellow artists with a compelling visual environment, and the sweeping Bavarian landscape featured heavily in their output from this time. Executed in intense, luminous swathes of colour, the rich pigments of Landschaft imbue the scene with an emphatic vitality. Jawlensky conveys the brightness and clarity of the sky through thick, bold strokes of pure blue pigment, which reflects in the lush green grass below, vividly illustrating Jawlensky’s use of complementary colours to build his compositions. Perfectly capturing the spirit of the landscape, the artist conveys not only his own sensations of awe before the scene, but also introduces a spiritual dimension to the subject, in which the sweeping vista becomes a portal to a greater understanding and appreciation of nature, a concept the artist would continue to explore throughout the rest of his career.