Mariana Verevkina. Evolution of style from symbolism to expressionism

The book is dedicated to Marianne Vladimirovna Verevkina - student of I.E. Repina, associate of V.V. Kandinsky and A. G. Yavlensky. This comprehensively educated woman devoted her life to art. Active public life by M.V. Verevkina in Munich made her salon on Guiselastrasse the Center for Free -thinking. Her painting has undergone categorical changes. The artist abandoned realism and began to create paintings of a new, expressionistic sense. Participation in the formation of art of the new Munich association of artists gave M.V. Verevkina the opportunity to exhibit works of contemporary art. With the outbreak of World War I, the artist, as a subject of the Russian Empire, had to leave for St. Prex, and later in Zurich. The revolutionary events that occurred in Russia in 1917 deprived M.V. Verevkin, the possibility of returning to his homeland and forced her to remain in emigration. Having settled in Ascon - a small Swiss resort town on the shore of a picturesque lake, she was able to take one of the leading positions and played a leading role in the creative life of Switzerland