Alexandra Exter Net Worth is
$250,000

Mini Biography

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich (Alexandra Exter) was created on January 6, 1882, in Belostok, Russian Empire (now Poland). Her dad, called Aleksandr Grigorovich, was a rich businessman. She wedded an effective Kiev lawyer, called Nicolas Evgenievich Ekster, who was simply her cousin. Alekandra Ekster was a stylish, elegant, cosmopolitan woman, and quickly became the toast of the city. Her painting studio room in the attic at 27 Funduklievskaya Road was a rallying stage for Kiev’s intellectual top notch. There she was frequented by poets and authors Anna Akhmatova, Ossip Mandelstam, Ilja Ehrenburg, movie director Aleksandr Tairov, the dancers Bronislava Njinska, and ‘Elsa Kruger’, and several artists. Exter studied artwork in the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Montparnasse, Paris, through the 1907 and 1908. After that she came back to Kiev and participated in exhibitions with David Burlyuk. Through the pursuing years Exter resided between Kiev, Odessa, Milan, and Paris and was exhibiting her functions in Salon des Independants in Paris, and in International Futurist Exhibitions in Milan and Rome. In those days she founded a group of famous close friends such as for example ‘Andre Gide’, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. She was affected by Cubism and was an individual friend of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who launched her to Gertrude Stein. From the 1917 her types of painting experienced evolved to the stage where any recognizable items were eliminated. Exter’s functions became research in blocks of shiny colours. In 1918 she created street adornments in abstract design in Kiev and Odessa. From 1918-1920 she founded and led a teaching and creation workshop in Kiev. There her college students had been Grigori Kozintsev, Sergei Yutkevich, and Aleksei Kapler amongst others. In 1921 Exter relocated to Moscow. There she collaborated with Alexander Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, and additional Russian avant-garde performers. From 1921-1924 she was teaching artwork in Moscow, at the bigger Artistic-Technical Workshop (VKHUTEMAS). In those days Exter achieved achievement like a stage developer, most recognized on her behalf function for the Moscow Chamber Theater of Aleksandr Tairov. In 1924 Alexandra Exter and her spouse emigrated to France and resolved in Paris. She trained in the Academie der Moderne in Paris and later on was a teacher at Academie d’Art Contemporain under ‘Fernand Leger’. She also worked well as a publication illustrator for the posting organization Flammarion. During her existence Exter produced a lot of paintings, visual works, street styles, and theatrical outfits and adornments, and worked in a number of designs from Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism and Constructivism. Alexandra Exter died on March 17, 1949, in Fontanay-aux-Roses, near Paris, France.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Aleksandra Ekster
Died	March 17, 1949, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Profession	Costume designer, Visual Artist
Education	Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Nationality	Russian
Parents	Aleksandr Grigorovich