![]() ![]() ![]() On the walls between Picasso and Braque paintings there was Ukrainian embroidery on the floor was a Ukrainian carpet, at the table they served clay pots, colorful majolica plates of dumplings." According to Moscow Chamber Theatre actress Alice Coonen, "In Parisian household there was a conspicuous peculiar combination of European culture with Ukrainian life. Her friend introduced her to the poet Apollinaire, who took her to Picasso's workshop. In 1915 she joined the group of avant-garde artists Supremus. In that same year she participated with the “Russians” Archipenko, Koulbine and Rozanova in the International Futurist Exhibition in Rome. In 1914, Ekster participated in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions in Paris, together with Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Vadym Meller, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and other French and Russian artists. She exhibited six works at the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie, Paris, October 1912, with Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and others. In Paris, Aleksandra Ekster was a personal friend of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who introduced her to Gertrude Stein. In 1908 she participated in an exhibition together with members of the group Zveno (Link) organized by David Burliuk, Wladimir Burliuk and others in Kiev. There she was visited by poets and writers, such as Anna Akhmatova, Ilia Ehrenburg, and Osip Mandelstam, dancers Bronislava Nijinska and Elsa Kruger, as well as many artists Alexander Bogomazov, Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, and students, such as Grigori Kozintsev, Sergei Yutkevich, and Aleksei Kapler among many others. Her painting studio in the attic at 27 Funduklievskaya Street, now Khmelnytsky Street, was a rallying stage for Kiev's intellectual elite.In the attic in her studio there worked future luminaries of world decorative art Vadim Meller, Anatole Petrytsky and P.Tchelitchew. Petersburg, Odessa, Paris, Rome and Moscow. ![]() From 1908 to 1924 she intermittently lived in Kiev, St. She spent several months with her husband in Paris, and there she attended Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse. The Eksters belonged to cultural and intellectual elite of Kiev. In 1908, Aleksandra Grigorovich married a successful Kiev lawyer, Nikolai Evgenyevich Ekster. Aleksandra graduated in painting from Kiev Art School in 1906. Olga and Kiev Art School, where she studied with Alexander Bogomazov and Alexander Archipenko. Soon her parents moved to Kyiv (Kiev), and Asya, as called by her friends, attended Kiev gymnasium St. Young Aleksandra received an excellent private education, studying languages, music, art, and taking private drawing lessons. Her father, Aleksandr Grigorovich, was a wealthy Belarusian businessman. She was born Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich in Białystok, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Poland) to a wealthy Belarusian family. Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (Russian: Александра Александровна Экстер, Ukrainian: Олександра Олександрівна Екстер 18 January 1882 – 17 March 1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian painter ( Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist) and designer of international stature who divided her life between Kiev, St. ![]()
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