28 Facts About Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff studied art in Saint Petersburg and then went to begin her art career in Paris in 1909.

Angelina Beloff worked as an art teacher, a marionette show creator and had a number of exhibits of her work in the 1950s.

Angelina Beloff was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia during the Tsarist period, and raised there by an intellectual family.

Angelina Beloff entered the St Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1905 as the city then was the center of Russian art.

Angelina Beloff's professors encouraged her to move to France to continue studying, which she did after her parents died in 1909.

Angelina Beloff lived in Paris with support of the Russian government as well as a trust fund from her family, working first in the studio of Henri Matisse and later in the studio of Spanish painter Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa.

Angelina Beloff went because France was at the vanguard of new painting expression, which had not yet arrived to Russia,.

Angelina Beloff met a number of Mexican artists in France and Belgium, meeting Diego Rivera during a trip with artist Maria Blanchard to Brussels.

Angelina Beloff worked various jobs, sacrificing her own creative development so that Rivera could paint.

Angelina Beloff left a diary of her life with Rivera which describes their private life, their exchanges of ideas as painters and collaborative projects, as well as interaction with other painters of their time.

Angelina Beloff did not accompany him as there was not enough money for both to travel.

Angelina Beloff divorced her but continued to send money for her support afterwards.

Angelina Beloff was invited to come to Mexico to live by Alfonso Reyes and German Cueto arriving to Mexico in 1932, when she was 53.

Angelina Beloff said that while she ran into Rivera often living in Mexico City, she never reproached him, only mocked him a little.

Angelina Beloff lived 37 years in Mexico, pursuing her art career and founding a number of public institutions devoted to the arts.

Angelina Beloff died in Mexico City on December 30,1969, at the age of 90.

Angelina Beloff worked in oils, watercolors, etchings, photography, graphic arts, puppets, gouaches and drawing creating portraits, landscapes, educational and other illustrations, stages scenes and marionettes.

Angelina Beloff produced most of her work in Mexico, which was mostly, painting, etching and puppet theater.

Angelina Beloff's etching and engraving work was mostly for the illustration of books in Europe.

Angelina Beloff was a master at drawing and created new techniques in etching.

Angelina Beloff was one of a number of foreign artists invited to Mexico to help shape the country's cultural scene in the decades after the Mexican Revolution.

Angelina Beloff started working as a drawing and engraving teacher for schools and workshops for the Secretaria de Educacion Publica in 1932 and later with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Angelina Beloff was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios starting in 1934, the Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores in 1947, the Galeria Espira in the 1930s, the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Arts Plasticas in 1948 and the Salon de las Plastica Mexicana in 1949.

Angelina Beloff's work is virtually unknown in Russia and France, although recognized by a number of academics.

Angelina Beloff is not an objective writer but rather an advocate for the artist.

Angelina Beloff's artwork was a fusion of European styles with Mexican imagery and colors, with her main artistic influences being Matisse, Cezanne and Picasso.

Angelina Beloff's painting shows the most influence from Cezanne, whose work she was introduced to by Rivera.

Angelina Beloff avoided Mexican national symbols in her work, preferring to recreate the mundane with focus on details.