edited by Mara Folini<\/p>\n
Moscow, Tret’jakov Gallery, 10 September-21 November 2010
\nAscona, Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna, 5 March-3 July 2011<\/p>\n
For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Russian painter Marianne von Werefkin, who was born in Tula in 1860 and settled in the Swiss town of Ascona, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow decided to stage an exhibition about her, as she played a decisive role on the art scene at the turn of the 20th century. Tied to Alexej Jawlensky for 30 years, she influenced Kandinsky, participated in and promoted the establishment of the Neue K\u00fcnstlervereinigung M\u00fcnchen and Der Blaue Reiter (she was dubbed the \u201chorsewoman of the Blue Riders\u201d), and experienced the upheaval of the avant-garde movements, including that of the Dada group. Indeed, key figures of the era\u2014representing all the arts\u2014gravitated around her, from Klee to the Sacharoffs, Else Lasker-Sch\u00fcler and Diaghilev. Werefkin, who lived in Russia, Lithuania, France and Germany, was forced to immigrate to Switzerland during the First World War. Starting in 1918 the town of Ascona welcomed her and many others, becoming a hub of culture and experimentation. In 2011 the exhibition will travel to Ascona, underscoring the enormous influence that both Russia and Switzerland had on Werefkin\u2019s artistic development and personality. These two exhibitions, which follow the one staged in Rome in 2009, have continued to investigate an artist who employed a dazzling and intense pallet to paint subjects imbued with symbolic meaning even when they appear to be commonplace. The catalogue illustrates numerous paintings by 19th- and 20th-century Russian artists who were connected with Werefkin, not only through shared aesthetic values but also friendship. There is an essential selection of critical texts, such as the letters that she and Igor Grabar exchanged between 1894 and 1914, which have been published here for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2198,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[99],"product_tag":[1598,1299],"class_list":["post-2196","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-catalogues","product_tag-contemporary-art","product_tag-painting","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n