The only study of these manuscripts is William Cole, Alexandra Exter: The Illustrated Manuscripts (Sitges, 2025).
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Aleksandra Ekster
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster, also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian and French painter and designer.
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culture · Russian-French painter (1882–1949) · painter · costume designer · illustrator · scenographer · graphic artist · designer · artist · textile artist · theatre designer · also Aleksandra Ekster, Oleksandra Oleksandrivna Hryhorovyč, Alexandrovna Ekster, Alexandra Ekster, Alexandrovna Grigorovich, Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovič
Born 18 January 1882 · Died 17 March 1949 · Q242121
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2025· 1 entry
1949· 2 entries
Died 1949-03-17.
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And is buried at the cemetery of Fontenay-aux-Roses
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1945· 1 entry
Her last work was a sculpture of an angel, which would be placed above what would be their joint grave site
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1936· 1 entry
Participated in the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art in New York and went on to have solo exhibitions in Prague and in Paris
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1933· 1 entry
Began creating beautiful and original illuminated manuscripts (gouache on paper), perhaps the most important works of the last phase of her life
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1924· 3 entries
Aleksandra Ekster and her husband emigrated to France and settled in Paris, where she initially became a professor at the Academie Moderne
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Ekster was the costume designer for the film Aelita
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In 1924, Aleksandra Ekster and her husband emigrated to France and settled in Paris, where she initially became a professor at the Academie Moderne.
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1923· 1 entry
Continued her work in many media in addition to collaborating with Vera Mukhina and Boris Gladkov in Moscow on the decor of the All Russian Exhibition pavilions
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1921· 2 entries
Became a director of the elementary course Color at the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshop (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow, a position she held until 1924
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Ekster's work in fashion design began
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1920· 1 entry
Ekster married the Moscow actor Georgii Georgievich Nekrasov (Russian: Георгия Георгиевича Некрасова; 1878–1945)
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1919· 1 entry
Together with other avant-garde artists Kliment Red'ko and Nina Genke-Meller, she decorated the streets and squares of Kiev and Odessa in abstract style for Revolution Festivities
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1917· 1 entry
More than 400 works were exhibited in Moscow, from where they never returned
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1915· 1 entry
Joined the group of avant-garde artists Supremus
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1914· 1 entry
Exter participated in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions in Paris, together with Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Vadym Meller, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and other French and Russian artists
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1908· 3 entries
Aleksandra Grigorovich married a successful Kiev lawyer, Nikolai Evgenyevich Ekster
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Participated in an exhibition together with members of the group Zveno (Link) organized by David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk and others in Kiev
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In 1908, Aleksandra Grigorovich married a successful Kiev lawyer, Nikolai Evgenyevich Ekster.
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-01-18.
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