Aleksandra Ekster

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Alexandra Ekster or Exter (Александра Экстер) (January 6, 1882 - March 17, 1949) was a painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one of the founders of Art Deco.

Exter was born in Belostok, Imperial Russia (now Poland) in the wealthy family of A. A. Grigorovich. She studied at Kiev art school, then in 1907 attended Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse, Paris.

From 1908 to 1924 she intermittently lived in Kiev, Peterburg, Odessa, Paris, Rome and Moscow.

In 1908 she participated in exhibition together with members of the group Zveno (Link)) organized by David Burliuk, Wladimir Burliuk and others in Kiev.

In 1914-1919 Ekster had a close contact with Picasso, Chagall, Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Apollinaire, Alexander Archipenko, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Ardengo Soffici and Marinetti.

In 1914 Ekster together with Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Vadym Meller, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and others participated in Salon des Indépendants exhibitions in Paris. In the same year she participated in International Futurist Exhibition in Milan.

In 1915 she worked with Kazimir Malevich. In the same year she joined the group of avant-garde artists Supremus.

In 1915-1916 she worked in the peasant craft cooperative in villages Skoptsi and Verbovka along with Kazimir Malevich, Yevgenia Pribylskaya, Nina Genke-Meller, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova.

Ekster founded a teaching and production workshop (MDI) in Kiev (1918-1920). Meller, Petrytsky, Redko, Chelitschev, Shifrin, Nikritin worked there.

In 1919 together with other avant-garde artists Kliment Red'ko and Nina Genke-Meller for Revolution Festivities decorated streets and squares of Kiev and Odessa in abstract style. She worked as a costume designer in a Ballet Studio of the dancer Bronislava Nijinska (Vaslav Nijinsky's sister).

From 1916 to 1921, Ekster was one of the leading names of Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre.

From 1921-1924 she was a director of the elementary course Colour at the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshop (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow.

In 1924 Ekster emigrated to France. She was a Professor at the Academie der Moderne in Paris.

From 1926 to 1930 Ekster was a professor at Leger's Academie d'Art Contemporain. In 1936 she participated in exhibition "Cubism and Abstract Art" in New York. In 1937 she had solo exhibitions in Prague and in Paris.

From 1936 to 1949 she worked as a book illustrator for the publishing company Flammarion in Paris.

Ekster died in Paris suburb Fontanay-aux-Roses.Template:Painter-stub

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