Marianne von Werefkin
The Great Moon, 1923
Tempera on paper mounted on cardboard, 75,5 × 77,5 cm
Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Ascona, Fondazione Marianne Werefkin
Marianne von Werefkin (1870–1938)
Marianne von Werefkin was of Russian nobility. In 1896, she gave up her own painting activities in Munich to support her partner, Alexej von Jawlensky: “So that he wouldn’t be jealous as an artist, I hid my art from him“. She began painting again in 1906. From 1918 onwards, she lived in Ascona, where she founded the Museo Comunale in 1922 with a collection of her own works.