Ksenia Vladimirovna Ender

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Ksenija Vladimirovna Ender ( Russian Ксения Владимировна Эндер , also transcribed Xenia Ender ; * 1895 in Sluzk ; † 1955 in Leningrad ) was a Russian painter .

Life

Ksenija Ender was the daughter of a gardener of German descent . Her great-grandfather was a Saxon glassmaker who settled in St. Petersburg. Like her siblings Boris (1893–1960), Marija (1897–1942) and Juri (1898–1963), she attended the Petri School in St. Petersburg , showed strong artistic inclinations and was very interested in music, poetry and theater.

Ksenija Ender studied from 1918 to 1922 in Petrograd in the workshop of spatial realism of the Free Artistic Workshops (SWOMAS) (successor organization of the imperial art academy ) with Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Matjuschin , in whose avant-garde Sorwed (seeing and leading) group she joined as well as her siblings Boris and Maria. From 1920 to 1922 she took part in events in memory of Jelena Genrichowna Guro . From 1923 to 1926 she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Organic Culture of the State Institute for Artistic Culture and experimented with space and colors under the influence of Matuschin. Some of her works were shown at the painting exhibition of Petrograd painters of all directions in 1923 and at the Fourteenth Biennale di Venezia in 1924 .

From the 1930s Ksenija Ender worked as a designer in an industrial construction office.

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  1. ^ Alfred Eisfeld , Victor Herdt, Boris Meissner (eds.): Germans in Russia and in the Soviet Union 1914–1941 . LIT Verlag , Münster 2007, p. 356.