Maria Bronislavovna Vorobyova-Stebelskaya

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Maria Bronislawowna Worobjowa-Stebelskaja ( Russian Мария Брониславовна Воробьёва-Стебельская , French Marie Bronislava Vorobieff-Stebelska * February 14 jul. / 26. February  1892 greg. In Cheboksary , † 4. May 1984 in London ) was a predominantly in France , Cubist painter of Russian origin, active in England in her old age .

Maxim Gorky gave her the name of the fairy tale fairy Marewna , by whom she later became known and signed her pictures. In the literature there are various other variations of the name of what was probably the first woman to paint in a cubist manner . Vorobjowa is known for the style she calls "dimensionalism" by combining cubist elements with pointillist and applying the golden ratio for the image construction .

Life

Vorobjowa-Stebelskaya was the daughter of a Polish nobleman named Bronislaw Stebelskij and the actor and puppeteer Maria Vorobjowa . She spent her childhood in Tbilisi , which was then under Russian control, and went to Moscow in 1910 to study at the Stroganov College of Industrial Art. But a year later she left Russia and went to Italy , where she received lessons from Maxim Gorky on Capri .

In 1912 she went to Paris for further training. Here she exhibited for the first time and met well-known artists and writers from the École de Paris , including Georges Braque , Marc Chagall , Jean Cocteau , Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg , Max Jacob , Moise Kisling , Pinchus Kremegne and Fernand Léger in the La Ruche artists' estate in the Montparnasse district , Henri Matisse , Amedeo Modigliani , Pablo Picasso and Chaim Soutine . In 1915 she met the Mexican Diego Rivera , who was temporarily staying in Paris and at that time was already firmly in a relationship with Angelina Beloff , who was expecting a child from him. It was at this point that she discovered cubism as her favorite art style. She started a relationship with Rivera and became pregnant. When their daughter Marika Rivera was born in November 1919, Rivera did not adopt her as a daughter. Marewna therefore raised her daughter alone, but apparently never lost contact with Diego Rivera. Only at the time of his death did she enter into a relationship with Chaim Soutine.

When their daughter Marika married Rodney Phillips for the second time , she lived in his Athelhampton Hall in Dorset , England , which he owned from 1949 to 1957. After her daughter's second marriage failed, she moved to Ealing , a London suburb, with her daughter and her two sons from her first and second marriage . Here she exhibited her pictures; however, high sums of money could not be achieved when selling her pictures. Many of her pictures were destroyed by her dogs. After she ran out of money and had no more space to paint, she met the photographer Anya Teixeira , who provided her with material for painting from her low salary as an employee and successfully arranged a space for painting so that Marewna could continue her career .

Patrick Cooke , the current owner of Athelhampton House, opened the so-called "Marevna's Studio" in the west wing of the building, where pictures from "The Marika & David Philipps and Athelhampton Collections" are now on display.

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SURNAME Vorobjowa-Stebelskaya, Marija Bronislavovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vorobyeva, Marija; Vorobieff-Stebelska, Marie Bronislava; Marewna; Marevna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cubist painter of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheboksary
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1984
Place of death London