About Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (née Grigorovich; Russian: Алекса́ндра Алекса́ндровна Эксте́р; Ukrainian: Олекса́ндра Олекса́ндрівна Е́кстер; 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1882 – 17 March 1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian and French painter and designer. As a young woman, her studio in Kiev attracted all the city's creative luminaries, and she became a figure of the Paris salons, mixing with Picasso, Braque and others. She is identified with the Russian/Ukrainian avant-garde, as a Cubo-futurist, Constructivist, and influencer of the Art Deco movement. She was the teacher of several School of Paris artists such as Abraham Mintchine, Isaac Frenkel Frenel and the film directors Grigori Kozintsev, Sergei Yutkevich among others. Ekster later founded a teaching and production workshop (MDI) in Kiev (1918–1920). Yet, she also created a special painting inspired by Venice at the entrance hall on the second floor of the Soviet Pavilion. In Paris, Ekster became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who introduced her to Gertrude Stein.
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