Füssen

In the early spring of 1905 Jawlensky and the painter Marianne von Werefkin, his companion and patron, spent two weeks in Füssen, a small town in the Allgäu at the foot of the Alps. Twelve pictures are known from that stay, and this is one of them, small, on cardboard, with snow still lying over the town and the hills. The group is read as Jawlensky's closest working-through of Vincent van Gogh, in the way the landscape is laid out flat and in the way each brushstroke is left visible as a mark in its own right. The twelve went their separate ways long ago. In April 2026 Museum Wiesbaden, in the city where Jawlensky spent his last 20 years, bought a view of the Füssen railway station painted that March, the first picture from the cycle to enter its collection. This one belongs to the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, named for the painter and her later companion, an art historian, and it is at the Lenbachhaus on permanent loan.