Marie Vassilieff
Marie Vassilieff , Russian Marija Iwanowna Wassiljewa , Мария Ивановна Васильева (born February 12, 1884 in Smolensk , † May 14, 1957 in Nogent-sur-Marne ) was a Russian - French painter and sculptor . She is considered the first female representative of Cubism .
Life
In 1902 Marie Vassilieff studied medicine in Saint Petersburg , but gave up studying to go to the Petersburg Academy of Art . In 1905 she traveled to Paris and worked as a correspondent for a Russian newspaper. At the same time Vassilieff became a student of the impressionist Henri Matisse (1869–1954). Three years later she founded the Marie Vassilieffs Académie , where Nina Hamnett , Alexandra Povòrina and Ossip Zadkine studied. Within a very short time she made the acquaintance of the city's most famous artists, including Georges Braque , Fernand Léger , Jean Cocteau , Juan Gris , Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani . Vassilieff regularly exhibited her works in the Salon d'Automne and in the Salon des Indépendants . In the years from 1909 to 1914 she made several trips to Scandinavia , Romania , Poland and Russia in order to collect new inspiration for her pictures.
Since 1912 she has had her own studio in the artists' quarter of Montparnasse , where numerous avant-garde artists met. At the end of December 1915, Vassilieff, along with 13 other artists, including Kasimir Malevich , took part in the 0.10 exhibition by the Suprematists in Petrograd .
During the First World War , she was heavily involved in the French Red Cross . In 1915 she opened a private canteen, where impoverished artists could have cheap meals and meet despite the curfew in the evening.
After the war exhibitions followed in New York City and in London . At that time, like many of her famous friends, she mainly painted in the Cubist style.
Shortly before her death, a major retrospective took place in Paris in 1957 . Her works are represented in major museums, including Chicago , Grenoble , La Rochelle and Paris. The artist was only received later in the Federal Republic of Germany. Only in 1995 did the Hidden Museum in Berlin devote a solo exhibition to her. She had a liaison with the Mexican painter Diego Rivera .
literature
- Marion Becker: Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957) - A Russian artist in Paris , Berlin: Dream & Space (1995) ISBN 3-929346-04-4
Web links
- Le Musée du Montparnasse (French)
- Marie Vassilieff ( Memento of December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
- Marie Vassilieff (English)
- Marie Vassilieff (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vassilieff, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Васильева, Мария Ивановна (Russian); Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliewa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-French painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smolensk |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1957 |
| Place of death | Nogent-sur-Marne |