Marianne von Werefkin [SEP] place of death
Marianne von Werefkin
Marianne von Werefkin (; , Tula, Russia – 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration "Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina"), was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.
Life and career.
Marianne von Werefkin was born in the Russian town of Tula as the daughter of the commander of the Ekaterinaburg Regiment. She had her first private academic drawing lessons at the age of fourteen. In 1880, she became a student of Ilya Repin, the most
portrait "Bildnis Marianne von Werefkin" ("Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin") from 1906.
Art collection Expressionists and the Hanna Bekker vom Rath collection.
Even before World War II, the Museum Wiesbaden had an important collection of works by the Expressionists. In addition, the collection of the Wiesbaden art collector and patron Heinrich Kirchhoff was regularly exhibited, with which many modernist works could be shown. With the Nazi confiscation campaign under the title Entartete Kunst all modern works of art were removed from the museum, so that