MARIANNE VON WEREFKIN
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Synopsis
Marianne von Werefkin (1860 – 1938) came from Russian aristocracy. Her mother recognized herdaughter’s painting talent early and introduced her to Ilja Repin, the most important realistic painter
of the time in Russia, who was to help Marianne find her own style. She went on to become known
as “the Russian Rembrandt” but then suffered a hunting accident at the peak of her career, injuring
her painting hand. At the age of 32, she met the painter Alexej Jawlensky and invested all of her
efforts and fortune to make a great painter out of him. In Munich, she gathered politicians, high
society, aristocrats and artists in her “pink salon”. For ten years, she devoted herself to furthering
Jawlensky’s career and didn’t paint at all, but she did keep a diary, the Lettres a un Inconue, texts
of enormous poetic power. After Jawlensky left her, she had a complete breakdown. Then her inner
voice convinced her to return to painting. Her new style was a complete break with the past; beyond
realism, clear and vibrant colors and provoking contrasts determined her wonderful compositions. She
moved to Ascona and founded a new artists’ colony and went on to become one of the founders of
modern art and the arists’ community Der Blaue Reiter.
German title: MARIANNE VON WEREFKIN – Ein Leben fuer die Kunst
90min | DigiBeta | 16:9 | original German version with English subtitles available
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Cast & Crew
- Regie
Cast & Crew
Stella Tinbergen
