Olga Nicolaevna Sacharoff - Artist Info

About Olga Nicolaevna Sacharoff

Name variants

Olga Sakhorova, Olga Zacharoff, Olga Zakharova
  • Biography

    Olga Nicolaevna Sacharoff (May 28, 1889, Tbilisi, Georgia ? 1967, Barcelona) was a Spanish artist of Russo-Persian origin associated with naive art and the Surrealist movement.

    Olga Sacharoff (also spelled Sakhorova, Zakharova, or Zacharoff) was born in Georgia, which at the time was a part of the Russian Empire. Her mother was of Persian origin. After studying at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, she visited Rome and traveled to Munich, where she came in contact with the German Expressionist* movement. In Germany, she met her future husband, the photographer and painter Otho Lloyd.

    Beginning in 1909, Sacharoff regularly visited Paris. By 1912, she and Lloyd had settled in the city and were married. She exhibited frequently...

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