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Alexej von Jawlensky Variation Öl auf Halbkarton, auf Unterlagekarton montiert. 32,6 x 25 cm (45 x 36,5 cm). Unter Glas gerahmt. Unten links blau monogrammiert 'A.J.' - Wie bei den "Variationen" häufiger, die oberen Ecken werkprozeßbedingt mit Reißnagellöchern, der Rand partiell farblich alt ergänzt. M. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/Jawlensky Bianconi, Vol. IV Addenda Vol. II, 2288 mit Farbabb. S. 426 Mit einer Foto-Expertise von Maria Jawlensky/Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky/Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky Archiv Locarno, vom 20. Februar 1997 Provenienz Im Atelier des Künstlers erworben; Maria Scheffer, München (1921); Privatbesitz Rheinland; Lempertz, Köln, Moderne Kunst 7.6.1997, Lot 1262; Privatsammlung „Ich fing nun an, einen neuen Weg in der Kunst zu suchen. Es war eine große Arbeit. Ich verstand, dass ich nicht das malen mußte, was ich sah, sogar nicht das, was ich fühlte, sondern nur das, was in mir, in meiner Seele lebte. Bildlich gesagt, es ist so: Ich fühlte in mir, in meiner Brust eine Orgel, und die musste ich zum Tönen bringen. Und die Natur, die vor mir war, soufflierte mir nur. Und das war ein Schlüssel, der diese Orgel aufschloß und zum Tönen brachte. Anfangs war es sehr schwer. Aber nach und nach konnte ich leicht mit Farben und Formen das finden, was in meiner Seele war.“ (Brief von Alexej von Jawlensky an Jan Verkade, 12. Juni 1938, zit. nach Clemens Weiler, Alexej von Jawlensky, der Maler und Mensch, Wiesbaden 1955, S. 39 ff.) Die „Variationen über ein landschaftliches Thema“ bilden eine besondere Werkgruppe im Schaffen von Alexej von Jawlensky. Der Großteil dieser Arbeiten entstand in St. Prex am Genfer See, wohin der Künstler direkt nach Kriegsausbruch im Jahr 1914 gemeinsam mit Marianne von Werefkin floh. Seine Staffelei unmittelbar am Fenster platziert, variierte Jawlensky von hier aus immer und immer wieder den Blick aus seiner Wohnung auf den zum See führenden Parkweg. Als Landschafts- und Fensterbilder stehen Jawlenskys Variationen in einer langen kunsthistorischen Tradition. Sie folgen dabei jedoch keinem mimetischen Konzept, sondern verweisen in Ihrer Vielfalt auf das Sentiment des Malers in dessen spezifischen Lebensumständen. Jawlenskys späte Reflexion über diese Arbeiten kündet eindrucksvoll von seinem synästhetischen Kunstbegriff und illustriert bildhaft die vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit jener antimaterialistischen Grundhaltung zwischen Mystik, Religion und Spiritismus, die auch das Werk seines Zeitgenossen Wassily Kandinsky maßgeblich mitprägte. Die im unteren Bereich der Variation vorherrschende Vermittlung von Rot- und Blautönen mag vor dem Kontext der Schönberg-Rezeption durch die Mitglieder des Blauen Reiter verstanden werden. Beindruckt von dessen kompositorischen Überlegungen zu Dissonanz und Konsonanz versuchten Jawlensky, Kandinsky und Marc vielfach Arnold Schönbergs Ideen in die Malerei zu übertragen. In der vorliegenden Variation arrangiert Jawlensky die einzelnen Farben in harmonischer Ausgewogenheit und bringt sie in selten gesehener Intensität zum Klingen. Alexej von Jawlensky Variation Oil on light card, mounted on card support. 32.6 x 25 cm (45 x 36.5 cm). Framed under glass. Monogrammed 'A.J.' in blue lower left. - As is quite often the case with the "Variationen", work process-related drawing pin holes to the upper corners, partially old colour additions to the margins. M. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/Jawlensky Bianconi, Vol. IV Addenda Vol. II, 2288 with colour illus. p. 426 With a photo-certificate by Maria Jawlensky/Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky/Angelica Jawlensky Bianconi, Alexej von Jawlensky Archiv Locarno, dated 20 February 1997 Provenance Acquired in the studio of the artist; Maria Scheffer, Munich (1921); Private possession, Rhineland; Lempertz, Cologne, Moderne Kunst 7 June 1997, lot 1262; Private collection “I now began to search for a new path in art. It was a major task. I understood that I did not have to paint what I saw, not even what I felt, but only that which lived within me, in my soul. To put it in symbolic terms, it is like this: I felt within myself, within my breast, the keyboard of an organ and I had to make it resonate. And the nature that was in front of me served me only as a prompter. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it resonate. In the beginning it was very difficult. But little by little, it became easy for me to use colours and forms to find what was within my soul.” (letter from Alexei von Jawlensky to Jan Verkade, 12 June 1938, cited in Clemens Weiler, Alexej von Jawlensky, der Maler und Mensch, Wiesbaden 1955, pp. 39 ff.) The “Variationen über ein landschaftliches Thema” form an exceptional group of works within Alexej von Jawlensky's oeuvre. The majority of them were created in St Prex, next to Lake Geneva, where the artist and Marianne von Werefkin had fled together immediately after the outbreak of the war in 1914. With his easel placed directly next to the window, Jawlensky created variation after variation of the view from this point in his home down on to the park path that led to the lake. As landscape and window paintings, Jawlensky's variations stand in a long art historical tradition. At the same time, however, they do not adhere to a mimetic concept; instead, in their diversity, they indicate the painter's sentiments within the specific circumstances of his life. Jawlensky's late reflection regarding these works powerfully testifies to his synaesthetic concept of art and symbolically illustrates his intensive occupation with that anti-materialistic fundamental attitude between mysticism, religion and spiritualism which also definitively shaped the work of his contemporary Wassily Kandinsky. The transitions between the red and blue tones that dominate in the lower section of this variation may be understood within the context of the reception of Arnold Schoenberg's ideas through members of the “Blauer Reiter”. Impressed by his compositional considerations regarding dissonance and consonance, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Marc repeatedly attempted to transfer Schoenberg's ideas to painting. In the present variation, Jawlensky has arranged the individual colours in a harmonious balance and caused them to resonate with a rarely seen intensity.
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06/03/2016
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