Marie Vorobieff
Maria Bronislawowna Worobjowa - Stebelskaja (Russian Мария Брониславовна Воробьёва - Стебельская; French:. . Vorobieff Marie Bronislava - Stebelska; * 14 Februarjul / February 26 1892greg in Cheboksary; † 4 MAY 1984 London) was a mostly in France, then in England active in old age, cubist painter of Russian origin.
Maxim Gorky gave her the name of a fairy named " Marewna ", under which it was later known and signed their pictures. In the literature, there are several other variations of the name probably first female painter of Cubism. Worobjowa is known for the style referred to her as " Dimensionalismus " by it applied cubist elements with pointillist combined and for the image construction of the golden section.
Biography
Worobjowa - Stebelskaja was the daughter of a Polish nobleman named Bronislaw Stebelskij and the show and puppeteer Mary Worobjowa. She spent her childhood in the then Russian -controlled Tbilisi 1910 and went to Moscow to study at the Stroganov School of Commercial Art. But a year later she left Russia and went to Italy, where she received lessons on Capri by Maxim Gorky.
In 1912 she went to Paris to educate yourself. Here it was also the first time and met in the art colony La Ruche in Montparnasse district, renowned artists and writers of the former Ecole de Paris, including Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg, Max Jacob, Moise Kisling, Pinchus Krémègne, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Chaim Soutine. In 1915 she met the Mexican Diego Rivera know that temporarily stayed in Paris and was romantically involved at the time already fixed with Angelina Beloff was expecting a child by him. At this time they discovered Cubism as favorite art style. With Rivera, she entered a relationship and became pregnant. When their daughter Marika Rivera was born in November 1919, Rivera did not take it as daughter. Marewna pulled her daughter on the sole, but obviously never lost contact with Diego Rivera. Only at the time of his death, she entered a relationship with Chaim Soutine.
When her daughter Marika remarried Rodney Phillips, she lived with in the Athelhampton House in Dorset, England, which he owned from 1949 to 1957. After the second marriage of her daughter had failed, she moved with her daughter and her two sons from his first and second marriage to Ealing, a suburb of London. Here she put her pictures, although not with high totals were achieved when selling their images. Many of her paintings were destroyed by their dogs. After her money ran out and she had to paint also no more room, she met the photographer Anya Teixeira that you ready presented by their low earnings as an employee material for painting and successful a space mediated to paint, so Marewna could continue her career.
Patrick Cooke, the current owner of the Athelhampton House opened in the west wing of the building, the so-called " Marevna 's Studio ", where today images of "The Marika & David Philipps and Athelhampton Collections" are exhibited.