Olga Wladimirowna Rozanowa, born on 21.6.1886 in Russia, was not only a painter, but also an enthusiastic poet, book illustrator and art theorist, and was clearly ahead of her time. This is particularly expressed in many of her paintings, which are counted among the styles of Neoprimitivism, Suprematism and Cubo-Futurism. The partly very abstract forms in her works sometimes resemble in a certain way also the modern style of today.
At the age of nineteen she attended an art school in Moscow with her friend, the avant-garde painter Nadescha Udalzowa, and studied at the Bolshackov and Stroganov School of Applied Arts until 1912. Afterwards, the committed young woman moved to Petersburg and founded the artists' association "Union of Youth" together with some other artists. This group soon comprised over thirty members. During this time she also became friends with the avant-garde painter Kasimir Sewerinowitsch Malewitsch. They organized exhibitions in which many other Russian avant-gardes also took part.
In the following years Olga Rozanowa herself took part in various exhibitions. She took another big step in her career when her drawings were mounted in the pages of a volume of poetry by the Italian artist and founder of Futurism Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti in 1913. This possibility represented a remarkable innovation in book art at the time. At the International "Futurist Exhibition" in 1914, five works by Rozanowa were finally shown. Among them were illustrations for the book "Duck's Nest" by the poet Alexei Krutschonych. She married him in 1916 and Olga Rozanova became a member of the ISO and worked in various smaller towns. There she made designs for textiles, among other things. The collaboration with Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter and Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko during this period had a strong influence on her working style, which was now even more influenced by geometric and abstract styles. Olga Rozanova devoted the last years of her life especially to design and book illustration. She died in 1918 at the age of only thirty-two of diphtheria, which was rampant in Russia at the time.
Olga Wladimirowna Rozanowa, born on 21.6.1886 in Russia, was not only a painter, but also an enthusiastic poet, book illustrator and art theorist, and was clearly ahead of her time. This is particularly expressed in many of her paintings, which are counted among the styles of Neoprimitivism, Suprematism and Cubo-Futurism. The partly very abstract forms in her works sometimes resemble in a certain way also the modern style of today.
At the age of nineteen she attended an art school in Moscow with her friend, the avant-garde painter Nadescha Udalzowa, and studied at the Bolshackov and Stroganov School of Applied Arts until 1912. Afterwards, the committed young woman moved to Petersburg and founded the artists' association "Union of Youth" together with some other artists. This group soon comprised over thirty members. During this time she also became friends with the avant-garde painter Kasimir Sewerinowitsch Malewitsch. They organized exhibitions in which many other Russian avant-gardes also took part.
In the following years Olga Rozanowa herself took part in various exhibitions. She took another big step in her career when her drawings were mounted in the pages of a volume of poetry by the Italian artist and founder of Futurism Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti in 1913. This possibility represented a remarkable innovation in book art at the time. At the International "Futurist Exhibition" in 1914, five works by Rozanowa were finally shown. Among them were illustrations for the book "Duck's Nest" by the poet Alexei Krutschonych. She married him in 1916 and Olga Rozanova became a member of the ISO and worked in various smaller towns. There she made designs for textiles, among other things. The collaboration with Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter and Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko during this period had a strong influence on her working style, which was now even more influenced by geometric and abstract styles. Olga Rozanova devoted the last years of her life especially to design and book illustration. She died in 1918 at the age of only thirty-two of diphtheria, which was rampant in Russia at the time.
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