16 Facts About Aleksandra Ekster

Aleksandra Ekster's was born Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich in Bialystok, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire to a wealthy Belarusian family.

Young Aleksandra Ekster received an excellent private education, studying languages, music, art, and taking private drawing lessons.

Aleksandra Ekster graduated in painting from Kiev Art School in 1906.

In 1908, Aleksandra Grigorovich married a successful Kiev lawyer, Nikolai Evgenyevich Ekster.

Aleksandra Ekster's spent several months with her husband in Paris, and there she attended Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Montparnasse.

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In Paris, Aleksandra Ekster became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who introduced her to Gertrude Stein.

Under the avant-garde umbrella, Aleksandra Ekster has been noted to be a suprematist and constructivist painter as well as a major influencer of the Art Deco movement.

Aleksandra Ekster absorbed from many sources and cultures in order to develop her own original style.

Aleksandra Ekster later founded a teaching and production workshop in Kyiv .

Aleksandra Ekster's worked with Vadym Meller as a costume designer in a ballet studio of the dancer Bronislava Nijinska.

Aleksandra Ekster constantly stayed true to her composition aesthetic across all mediums.

Aleksandra Ekster uses many elements of geometric compositions, which reinforce the core intentions of dynamism, vibrant contrasts, and free brushwork.

Aleksandra Ekster stretched the dynamic intentions of her work across all mediums.

Aleksandra Ekster's continued with these experimental tendencies in her later puppet designs.

From 1926 to 1930, Aleksandra Ekster was a professor at Fernand Leger's Academie d'Art Contemporain.

Aleksandra Ekster's was a book illustrator for the publishing company Flammarion in Paris from 1936 until her death in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses.