Alexandra Exter

Avant-garde polymath who painted with Picasso in Paris, designed costumes for sci-fi films, and built robots.

ABOUT

Born in 1882 in Białystok to a wealthy Belarusian family, Alexandra Exter (née Grigorovich) emerged as one of the most versatile figures of the Russian avant-garde. After studying at the Kiev Art School alongside future luminaries like Alexander Archipenko, she transformed her studio attic into a legendary gathering place for Kiev's creative elite—poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam, choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, and future film directors all congregated there to e…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Landscape with Houses and Trees 1914 · Cleveland Museum of Art Set design 1930 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Set design for Shakespeare's Othello, Act 1 1930 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Set design for Goethe's "Faust" 1930 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Circus 1930 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Set design for an operetta 1930 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Pablo PicassoCubism Georges BraqueCubism Kazimir MalevichSuprematism Sonia DelaunayOrphism

Influenced

Abraham MintchineSchool of Paris Pavel TchelitchewNeo-Romanticism