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Born 13.XI.1878 in St Petersburg, died 15.IX.1967, Hamburg daughter of the painter Vladimir Makovskii in the mid 1890s she studied at the Tenisheva studio in St Petersburg and then at the Academy of Arts under Il'ia Repin and Vladimir Beklemishev in 1898 she went to Munich and studied at Anton Ažbe's studio she married the Austrian sculptor Richard Luksch and moved to Vienna with him, and became the first female member of the Vienna Secession and a participant in the design cooperative Wiener Kunst im Hause. Between 1901 and 1912 she participated in numerous exhibitions in Vienna and St Petersburg, contributing paintings, graphic art, sculpture and applied art designs in 1907 she moved permanently to Hamburg where she taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule. (Adapted from Jeremy Howard.) EDUCATION & TRAINING: Daughter of the painter Vladimir Makovskii. In the mid-1890’s she studied in St Petersburg at the Tenisheva Drawing School and at the Academy of Arts under Il’ia Repin and Vladimir Beklemishev. In 1898 she went to Munich where she studied at Anton Ažbe’s studio, simultaneously with Vasili Kandinskii, Alexey von Jawlensky and Mstislav Dobuzhinskii. ACTIVITIES: She married the Austrian sculptor Richard Luksch (1872–1967) and moved to Vienna, where she was the first female member of the Vienna Secession and a participant in the pioneering design cooperative Wiener Kunst im Hause. Between 1901 and 1912 she participated in numerous exhibitions, showing her painting, graphic art, sculpture and applied art designs in Vienna and St Petersburg. In 1907 she moved permanently to Hamburg where she taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule. (Adapted from Jeremy Howard.) [Chronology (English)] Elena Konstantinovna Makovskaia-Luksh, 1878-1967. Painter, sculptor, and designer. [Biography (English)] TO TRANSL. INTO RUSSIAN [Biography (Cyrillic)] TO TRANSL. INTO RUSSIAN [Chronology (Cyrillic)]
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