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Aleksandra Ekster

1882 - 1949

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Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (née Grigorovich; Russian: Алекса́ндра Алекса́ндровна Эксте́р; Ukrainian: Олекса́ндра Олекса́ндрівна Е́кстер; 18 January 1882 – 17 March 1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian and French painter and designer. As a young woman, her studio in Kiev attracted all the city's creative luminaries, and she became a figure of the Paris salons, mixing with Picasso, Braque and others. She is identified with the Russian/Ukrainian avant-garde, as a Cubo-futurist, Constructivist, and influencer of the Art Deco movement. She was the teacher of several School of Paris artists such as Abraham Mintchine, Isaac Frenkel Frenel and the film directors Grigori Kozintsev, Sergei Yutkevich among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandra Ekster is the 361st most popular painter (up from 386th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Poland (up from 229th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Painter.

Aleksandra Ekster is most famous for her work with the Polish avant-garde group, the Constructivist Group of Warsaw.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 361 out of 2,023. Before her are Utamaro, Francesco Albani, Catharina van Hemessen, David Teniers the Younger, Michael Ancher, and Francesco Melzi. After her are Vasily Perov, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Édouard Vuillard, Asher Brown Durand, Balthus, and Ferdinand Bol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 53. Before her are Lluís Companys, Otto Neurath, Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, and Jean Giraudoux. After her are Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, August Kopff, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Yusef of Morocco, Éamon de Valera, and Wacław Sierpiński. Among people deceased in 1949, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 29. Before her are Nathuram Godse, Kim Koo, Félix d'Herelle, Henri Giraud, Marcel Cerdan, and Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. After her are Gustav Radbruch, Solomon R. Guggenheim, László Rajk, Sarojini Naidu, Nikola Zhekov, and Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 209 out of 1,694. Before her are Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Grzegorz Lato (1950), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Hermann Balck (1893), Felix Hausdorff (1868), and Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749). After her are Hans Lammers (1879), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), and Stanislaus Kostka (1550).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 4. Before her are Jan Matejko (1838), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), and Zdzisław Beksiński (1929). After her are Otto Mueller (1874), Moïse Kisling (1891), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), Olga Boznańska (1865), and Aleksander Orłowski (1777).

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