Olga Costa
Olga Costa , actually Olga Kostakowsky (born August 28, 1913 in Leipzig , † June 28, 1993 in Guanajuato ), was a German-born Mexican artist of Ukrainian descent.
biography
Olga, daughter of the Ukrainian violinist and composer Jacobo Kostakowsky (1893–1953) and his wife Ana , spent her childhood in Berlin before the family moved to Mexico in 1925. After a few months in Veracruz , the family settled in Mexico City . Here she met Diego Rivera , Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo and also Carlos Mérida during her studies at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas . In 1935 she married José Chávez Morado . The two spent most of their time in the state of Guanajuato , where they collected several pre-Hispanic art pieces as well as pieces of Mexican colonial and folk art . Then she and her husband founded Galería Espiral in Mexico City . In 1945 she had her first solo exhibition at the Galería de Arte Mexicana and traveled through Japan in 1946, which greatly influenced her later works by the techniques and style of Asian art.
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| SURNAME | Costa, Olga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kostakowsky, Olga (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1993 |
| Place of death | Guanajuato |