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Alexandra Povorina BIOGRAPHY
1888 St. Petersburg, Russia - 1963 Berlin, Germany. Known for: Modernist portrait, landscape, still-life painting.
Alexandra Povorina-Hestermann was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg. At the urging of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin, the artist went to Munich in 1907, where she began studying at a private... Read full biography
Alexandra Povorina-Hestermann was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg. At the urging of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin, the artist went to Munich in 1907, where she began studying at a private school of painting with Simon Hollósy, a painter with a relatively traditionalist approach to art.... Read full biography
Alexandra Povorina-Hestermann was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg. At the urging of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin, the artist went to Munich in 1907, where she began studying at a private school of painting with Simon Hollósy, a painter with a relatively traditionalist approach to art. She maintained close contacts with the local artistic bohemia, including the later founders of the group "Der Blaue Reiter". It was the avant-garde that attracted a woman much more, who while polishing... Read full biography
Alexandra Povorina-Hestermann was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg. At the urging of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin, the artist went to Munich in 1907, where she began studying at a private school of painting with Simon Hollósy, a painter with a relatively traditionalist approach to art. She maintained close contacts with the local artistic bohemia, including the later founders of the group "Der Blaue Reiter". It was the avant-garde that attracted a woman much more, who while polishing her workshop in the master's studio, at the same time searched for new challenges and paths. In 1911, Povorina moved to Paris, the artistic capital of the world. The cultural center of the city then began a slow migration from Montmartre to the... Read full biography
Alexandra Povorina-Hestermann was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg. At the urging of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin, the artist went to Munich in 1907, where she began studying at a private school of painting with Simon Hollósy, a painter with a relatively traditionalist approach to art. She maintained close contacts with the local artistic bohemia, including the later founders of the group "Der Blaue Reiter". It was the avant-garde that attracted a woman much more, who while polishing her workshop in the master's studio, at the same time searched for new challenges and paths. In 1911, Povorina moved to Paris, the artistic capital of the world. The cultural center of the city then began a slow migration from Montmartre to the Montparnasse hill. Paris shivered and throbbed, and everything was accompanied by artistic ferment. The painter looked at other modern tren... Read full biography
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Alexandra Povorina-Hestermann was born in 1885 in Saint Petersburg. At the urging of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin, the artist went to Munich in 1907, where she began studying at a private school of painting with Simon Hollósy, a painter with a relatively traditionalist approach to art.
She maintained close contacts with the local artistic bohemia, including the later founders of the group "Der Blaue Reiter". It was the avant-garde that attracted a woman much more, who while polishing her workshop in the master's studio, at the same time searched for new challenges and paths.
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