Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff, 1909

Angelina Beloff (actually Angelina Petrovna Belova , Russian Ангелина Петровна Белова * June 11 ^jul. / 23. June  1879 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † the thirtieth December 1969 in Mexico City ) was a Russian painter and sculptor who also Mexico was active.

Life

Beloff originally wanted to study paediatrics , but then turned to art and enrolled at the Petersburg Art Academy in 1904 , where she studied until 1909. She then trained at the Académie Matisse in Paris and then at the Académie Vitti with Hermen Anglada Camarasa , where she met the painter María Gutiérrez Blanchard , the cousin of the painter Germán Cueto . She also studied stone and metal sculpture. Also in 1909 she met the painter Diego Rivera in Belgium . She lived with him in her Paris apartment and married him two years later. She gave birth to a son named Diego , who died in 1917 at the age of 14 months at the time of the First World War . At this time Rivera also had a relationship with the Russian Marija Bronislavowna Vorobjowa-Stebelskaya , who was known under the name "Marewna". With her he had a daughter named Marika whom he did not want to adopt. She later became an actress. The relationship between Rivera and Beloff lasted twelve years despite these circumstances, until Rivera finally went back to Mexico in 1921. He did not keep his promise to send her support. Eleven years later, she had saved enough money to visit Rivera in Mexico. There she found that Rivera had already remarried twice. Rivera denied even knowing her and permanently ignored her. This fate touched the writer Elena Poniatowska so much that in 1978 she published a series of fictional letters from Beloff entitled “Querido Diego” (“Dear Diego”). Beloff herself made her living in Mexico by teaching sculpture classes. She was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios and in 1949 co-founder of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana .

Web links

Commons : Angelina Beloff  - Collection of Images

• Information about Angelina Beloff on the side of the Museo Andrés Blaisten (Engl.) ( Memento of 16 November 2006 at the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Angelina Beloff (Spanish), Galería de Mujeres Artistas.