

ABOUT
Russian-French painter, graphic artist, and theatrical designer associated with the Futurism, Cubism, and Constructivism movements. She was also a member of the avant-garde group of artists known as Supremus.She contributed to the Salon des Independants exhibitions in Paris in 1914.She was a friend of famed artist Pablo Picasso, who also introduced her to Gertrude Stein.
BEFORE FAMEShe studied painting at Kiev Art School in the early 1900s. Her painting studio became a gathering hub for the intellectual elite of Kiev; she hosted such notables as Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine.
PERSONAL LIFEShe was born into an upper-class Belarusian family. She married lawyer Nicolas Evgenievich Ekster in 1908.
FUN FACTSPainter Aleksandra Ekster were born on Friday, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 5 days until Aleksandra Ekster next birthday.