Xenia Leonidovna Boguslavskaya
Xenia Leonidowna Boguslawskaja ( Russian Ксения Леонидовна Богуславская , born January 24, 1892 in Veliky Novgorod , Russian Empire ; † May 3, 1973 in Paris ) was a Russian painter.
Life
Boguslawskaja's mother came from Greece , her father was a Caucasian and a high officer in the tsarist army . She received her first art lessons in a St. Petersburg art school. Ivan Albertowitsch Puni , her future husband, met her at the age of 16. Because she campaigned for socialist ideas , she had to flee in 1910 under a false name. Two years later she met Puni again in Naples ; they moved to Paris together. In Paris Boguslawskaja met exiled Russians and Russian avant-garde artists . In the French capital, she attended a Russian academy and earned her living as a draftsman of flower cards and fabric designs.
Due to an amnesty , Boguslawskaja was able to return to Saint Petersburg in 1913. There she finally married Puni and her apartment became a meeting place for the Russian avant-garde. Furthermore, she supported futuristic publications and acted as a mediator between the arguing groups. She was also the organizer of the Tramway 5 and 0.10 exhibitions in December 1915. A text by her and Puni on an art event became the manifesto of the 0.10 exhibition, for which they painted a picture together with other artists. In 1919 Boguslawskaja and Puni moved briefly to Vitebsk to teach at the art school. This was done at the suggestion of the local director Marc Chagall .
They left Russia at the end of 1919. At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1922 Boguslawskaja was represented with a few works. Kurt Schwitters dedicated his Merz picture Construction for Noble Women to her . In 1924 they started over in Paris after living in Berlin for five years. Boguslawskaja was responsible for the finances as a costume designer and fabric designer, until Puni gradually became known as a painter. From 1930 she gave up her own work and became involved in Puni's work, organized exhibitions for him and published the Punis work catalog in 1972.
Xenia Boguslavskaja died on May 3, 1973 at the age of 81 in Paris.
literature
- Lea Vergine: L'autre moitié de l'Avant-Garde 1910/1940. Femmes peintres et femmes sculptors in les mouvements d'avant-garde historiques. Ed .: Mireille Tansman-Zanuttini. Des Femmes, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7210-0234-1 .
- Jörk Rothamel: Boguslavskaya, Ksenija . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 42, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22782-5 , p. 449.
- Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein (Hrsg.): Sturm-Frauen: Artists of the avant-garde in Berlin 1910-1932 . Wienand, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-277-4 , p. 346
Web links
- Xenia Boguslawskaja on www.fembio.org
- Xenia Boguslawskaja on www.agnesthiebault.com
- Xenia Boguslawskaja on books.google.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boguslavskaya, Xenia Leonidovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Богуславская, Ксения Леонидовна (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Veliky Novgorod |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3rd 1973 |
| Place of death | Paris |