12 Facts About Nadezhda Udaltsova

Nadezhda Andreevna Udaltsova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter and teacher.

Nadezhda Udaltsova was born in the village of Orel, Russia, on 29 December 1885.

In September 1905 Udaltsova enrolled in the art school run by Konstantin Yuon and Ivan Dudin, where she studied for two years and met fellow-students Vera Mukhina, Liubov Popova, and Aleksander Vesnin.

Nadezhda Udaltsova married Alexander Udaltsov, her first husband, in 1908.

Nadezhda Udaltsova returned to Moscow in 1913 and worked in Vladimir Tatlin's studio together with Popova, Vesnin, and others.

Nadezhda Udaltsova's paintings were subsequently collected and exhibited in the 1920s by the Tretiakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, and other venues as examples of Cubo-Futurism.

Under the influence of Tatlin, Nadezhda Udaltsova experimented with Constructivism, but eventually embraced the more painterly approach of the Suprematist movement.

Nadezhda Udaltsova collaborated with Aleksei Gan, Aleksei Morgunov, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Malevich on a newspaper entitled Anarkhiia.

Nadezhda Udaltsova continued to teach, including instruction in textile design at Vhkutemas and the Textile Institute in Moscow from 1920 until 1930.

Under the influence of Drevin, Nadezhda Udaltsova returned to nature and began painting landscapes.

Nadezhda Udaltsova was allowed a solo exhibition at the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists in 1945, and after Stalin's death, she contributed to a group exhibition at Moscow's House of the Artist in October 1958.

Nadezhda Udaltsova's son was the prominent Russian sculptor Andrei Drevin.