Olga Picasso

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Olga Chochlowa, around 1916

Olga Picasso and Olga Khokhlova ( Russian Ольга Степановна Хохлова , Ukrainian Ольга Степанівна Хохлова * 17th June 1891 in Nezhin , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , now Ukraine ; † 11. February 1955 in Cannes , France ) was until 1917 a Russian Ballet dancer . She became known as the first wife of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). According to his real name Ruiz, her civil name was Olga Ruiz Picasso .

Life

Olga Chochlowa in Picasso's studio, Montrouge, spring 1918
Olga Picasso's burial place on the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes

Olga Chochlowa was born in Neschin to a Russian-Ukrainian family. In 1909 she joined the Ballets Russes ensemble under the direction of Sergei Pavlovich Djagilew . With this ensemble she toured large parts of Europe. In Rome in 1917 she met the young Pablo Picasso, who had joined the ballet company there to design the stage, curtain and costumes for the Ballet Parade , the premiere of which on May 18, 1917 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris caused a scandal.

When she left for Spain with the Djagilev ensemble at the end of the Paris season , Picasso followed her to Madrid and Barcelona , where his sister hosted him. Olga left the ballet troupe moving to South America and returned to France with Picasso at the end of November after issuing new identification papers. Since they were not married, Olga stayed in the feudal Hôtel Lutetia , while Picasso lived in the suburban house in Montrouge, which he had rented since 1916 .

On July 12, 1918, the two married in Paris in the Mairie of the 7th arrondissement and in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral according to the Russian Orthodox rite . Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob acted as witnesses . Picasso got access to better society through Olga. Until the birth of their son Paolo in 1921, the marriage was considered happy.

In 1927 Picasso began an affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter . After she became pregnant by Picasso, Olga Picasso moved with her son to the south of France and filed for divorce in 1935 . However, a long-term dispute over the assets prevented this.

Olga Picasso died on February 11, 1955 in Cannes on cancer and was on the Cimetiere du Grand Jas buried.

Her role in Picasso's life is shown in the play Picasso's Women by Irishman Brian McAvera in the 1998 production by Barbara Geiger, in her granddaughter Marina's book and in the documentary by Hugues Nancy Picasso, l'inventaire d'une vie (in German. Version: Looking for Picasso ) from 2013.

Olga Picasso in the husband's work

The portrait of Pablo of her from the year of her marriage, 1918, is well known in the style of the old masters: Olga on an armchair (Olga dans un fauteuil) . The English-language Wikipedia contrasts the image with a photograph with it in appropriate clothing and posture. The oil painting measures 130 × 88.8 cm and is now hanging in the Musée Picasso in Paris . More pictures in selection:

  • Olga in Mantilla , 1917, 64 × 53 cm, oil on canvas, private collection
  • Two Naked Seated Women (Deux femmes nues assises) , 1920
  • Olga , 1923
  • Olga Picasso (Head of a Woman) , 1930/31, on iron, material mix, 100 × 37 × 59 cm, Musee Picasso
  • Woman with a Hat (Olga) , 1935
  • Frauenkopf (Head of a Woman, Olga Picasso) , 1935

progeny

  • Paolo Picasso (Spanish Pablo; actually Paul Joseph, born February 4, 1921 in Paris; † June 5, 1975 ibid) ⚭ 1948 Emilienne Lotte
    • Pablito (1949–1973; death by suicide )
    • Marina (* 1950)

Exhibitions

See also

  • Jacqueline Picasso (1927–1986; she was the second wife of Pablo Picasso; marriage 1961)

literature

  • Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch: The women of Picasso. edition ebersbach, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86915-062-8
  • Ingrid Mössinger, Kerstin Dechsel, Beate Ritter: Picasso et les femmes - Picasso and women . Dumont, Cologne 2005. ISBN 978-3-832-17529-0
  • Marina Picasso: Marina Picasso: And still a Picasso. Life in the shadow of my grandfather , arr. Louis Valentin, transl. Dora Toblach. List, Munich 2001. 195 pp. ISBN 3-4717-8443-8

Web links

Commons : Olga Ruiz Picasso nee Khokhlova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Second season of the Ballets Russes in Madrid (May and June 1917), Teatro Real
  2. ↑ First season of the Ballets Russes in Barcelona (23-30 June 1917), Gran Teatre del Liceu .
  3. ^ Jean Leymarie: Picasso, Metamorphoses et Unité , Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva 1971, p. 233
  4. ↑ Zervos and the Museo Picasso Málaga attribute it to the year 1917.
  5. ↑ Marina Picasso briefly introduces the book about her family herself. Spiegel from Oct. 1, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Picasso, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khokhlowa, Olga; Chochlowa, Olga Stepanovna; Koklowa, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ballet dancer; first wife of the Spanish painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Nischyn , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1955
Place of death Cannes , France