Marianne Werefkin (1860-1938)

Aliases: Marianna Vladimirovna Verefkina; Marianna Vladimirovna Verevkina; Marianne "von" Wereffkin; Marianne "von" Werefkin

Professions: Painter

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  f - Marianne von Werefkin , 1870-1938 IM THEATER I (IN THE THEATRE I) tempera and gouache on paper laid down on board

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  WEREFKIN, MARIANNE (Tula 1860 - 1938 Ascona)

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Marianne Werefkin Biography

(b Tula, nr Moscow, 11 Sept 1860; d Ascona, 6 Feb 1938). Russian painter, active in Switzerland. Her father was a commander-general in the Russian army and her mother a trained artist who encouraged Werefkin to draw from an early age. In 1883 Werefkin attended the Moscow Art School, receiving tuition from Illarion Pryanishnikov (1840–94), a member of the Wanderers group. In St Petersburg this Realist direction was reinforced from 1886 by her private tutor Il’ya Repin, with whom she studied for ten years. A hunting accident in 1888 crippled the thumb and index finger of her right hand, but Werefkin persevered with her career, contributing to the first exhibition of the St Petersburg Artists’ Association in 1891. At this time she concentrated on large oil paintings, predominantly character portraits, in dark colours (Russian Peasant in Fur ; 1890, priv. col., see 1980 exh. cat.). At Repin’s studio in 1891 she met Alexei Jawlenski, who became her constant companion.

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