1910, Alexej von Jawlensky, Young Girl with a Flowered Hat -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: The colourful painting Girl in a Flower Hat attests to Jawlensky's study of Matisse's and the Fauves painting, whose first sensational exhibition in Paris he had seen in 1905. The Asian impression given by this picture is not only due to the model, but must also be seen as a deliberate choice, as Japanese drawings, woodcuts, and textiles had come into fashion in Europe in the late nineteenth century. Yet it was less the motif than the strong colours completely deviating from nature that made the artist one of Germany's leading early Expressionists in the group "Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider) under the Fauves' influence.
1910, Alexej von Jawlensky, Young Girl with a Flowered Hat -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: The colourful painting Girl in a Flower Hat attests to Jawlensky's study of Matisse's and the Fauves painting, whose first sensational exhibition in Paris he had seen in 1905. The Asian impression given by this picture is not only due to the model, but must also be seen as a deliberate choice, as Japanese drawings, woodcuts, and textiles had come into fashion in Europe in the late nineteenth century. Yet it was less the motif than the strong colours completely deviating from nature that made the artist one of Germany's leading early Expressionists in the group "Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider) under the Fauves' influence.