Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster

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Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster

Russian artist

Also known as: Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter

Written by Andrei D. Sarabianov

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Also spelled:: Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter

Born:: Jan. 6 [Jan. 18, New Style], 1882, Belostok, Russia [now Białystok, Pol.]

Died:: March 17, 1949, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France (aged 67)

Movement / Style:: abstract art

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Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (born Jan. 6 [Jan. 18, New Style], 1882, Belostok, Russia [now Białystok, Pol.]—died March 17, 1949, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) was a Russian artist of international stature who divided her life between Kiev, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris, thus strengthening the cultural ties between Russia and Europe. In this way and through her own artistic achievement, she did much to further the Russian avant-garde. Ekster spent her early years in Kiev and graduated from the Kiev Art School in 1906. There she met some of her future comrades in the struggle for Russian New Art: Aristarkh Lentulov, Aleksandr ...(100 of 501 words)

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