Marianne von Werefkin was a Russian artist whose shimmering tempera paintings contributed to the discourse of the Blauer Reiter group. Through self-portraits and landscapes, she conveyed the otherworldly distortion experienced in profound emotional states. “One life is far too little for all the things I feel within myself, and I invent other lives within and outside myself for them,” she once mused. “A whirling crowd of invented beings surrounds me and prevents me from seeing reality. Color bites at my heart.” Born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina on September 10, 1860 in Tula, Russian Empire (currently Lithuania), she began taking drawing classes at that age of 14 and was a private student of the renowned realist painter...