The big Moon

Marianne von Werefkin (born 1860 Tula, Russia - died 1938 Ascona, Switzerland), representative of expressionism , a visionary of the beginning of the 20th century. Her artistic life was characterized by great personalities and intellectual freedom. At the age of 20, she took private lessons from Ilya Repin himself - a Russian realist painter, and 10 years later she was nicknamed "Russian Rembrandt". At 32, she became friends with Alexei Jawlensky. Then W. Kandinsky, G.Muenter and Franz Marc appeared in her life, all in the context of expressionism, "The Blue Rider" and jointly organized painting exhibitions. Marianne von Werefkin's paintings, characterized by the use of strong color in contrasting juxtapositions, carefully composed form , departure from naturalism in favor of expression, are part of the expressionism trend .