January 18, 1882 was born Alexandra Exter

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Exter, Alexandra (1882-1949), painter, a master of Russian avant-garde, one of the founders of the "Art Deco". Born in Bialystok, 6 (18) January 1882 in a family collegiate assessor AA Grigorovich ( "Exeter" - her name for her husband). In 1901-1903 and 1906 worked at the Kiev Art School. Also visited the Paris Academy Grand Shomer (1907). In 1908-1924 she lived alternately in Kiev, St. Petersburg, Odessa and Moscow, before the October Revolution of 1917 is often going into Paris. In 1908 he organized in Kiev along with DD Burliuk exhibition "Link" has since participated in most of the most important exposition of the Russian avant-garde (the exhibition "Jack of Diamonds", "Youth Union", "Tramway V", etc.) .

Moving from early impressionism and Fauvism to Cubism and Futurism, consistently transfer the principles of the latter in three-dimensional, real space. Landmark in the avant-garde stage design was the work of Exter for the Chamber Theater AY Tairov (decoration Famira Kifared Annenskogo JF (1916) and O. Wilde's Salome (1917)), where it anticipated the principles of constructivist "biomechanics", subordinating the body cast a single supra-personal rhythm of the play. In the mid 1910-s one of the first was to introduce a new style of art in fashion and home design (sketches of dresses, shawls, tablecloths, etc.), thereby laying the foundation "Art Deco", a universally embracing life, but free from the rigid sociological, and total post-revolutionary utopianism "industrial art". Start the Free game reigns in her work the 1920 (model of textiles and clothing, decoration of the Chamber of performances, artistic and other theaters, sketches of costumes for the film Aelita YA Protazanov, 1923).

Leaving on a business trip to Italy, since 1924 has remained abroad, settled in Paris. Productively engaged in theatrical arts (ballet Romanov, VF Nijinsky and EE Krueger, 1924-1930), created puppets, takes the form of dynamic "skulptozhivopisi" (1926), children's picture books (1936 -- 1938), decorative screens and ceramics. Most of his life actively taught (in their own studios in Kiev and Paris, as well as in the Paris Academy of Contemporary Art and atelier M. Franchetti).

Exter died in Fontenay-o-Roses near Paris March 17, 1949.