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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandra Ekster has received more than 202,334 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Aleksandra Ekster is the 386th most popular painter (down from 358th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Poland (down from 214th 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 386 out of 2,023. Before her are Giuseppe Castiglione, David Teniers the Younger, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Orcagna, Armand Guillaumin, and Friedrich von Amerling. After her are Lorenzo Costa, François Clouet, Koloman Moser, Oskar Schlemmer, Giambattista Pittoni, and Bartholomeus Spranger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 56. Before her are B. Traven, Yusef of Morocco, Wacław Sierpiński, Jean Giraudoux, Petre Dumitrescu, and Pavel Florensky. After her are Yakub Kolas, John Bauer, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Leo Perutz, Fan Noli, and Franz Seldte. Among people deceased in 1949, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 30. Before her are Henri Giraud, Kim Koo, Marcel Cerdan, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Solomon R. Guggenheim, and Aino Aalto. After her are László Rajk, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry McMahon, José Clemente Orozco, Ellery Harding Clark, and Nikola Zhekov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 229 out of 1,694. Before her are Emil Ludwig (1881), Hans Modrow (1928), Felix Hausdorff (1868), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Władysław II the Exile (1105), and Ernst Toller (1893). After her are Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), and Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Aleksandra Ekster ranks 4. Before her are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Jan Matejko (1838), and Zdzisław Beksiński (1929). After her are Moïse Kisling (1891), Otto Mueller (1874), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Hans Bellmer (1902), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), and Józef Brandt (1841).

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