Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff (actually Petrovna Angelina Belova, Russian Ангелина Петровна Белова; born June 23, 1879 in Saint Petersburg, † December 30, 1969 in Mexico City) was a Russian painter and sculptor who was also active in Mexico.

Life

Beloff originally wanted to study pediatrics, but then turned to the arts and enrolled in 1904 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where she studied until 1909. She then trained at the Paris Académie Matisse, and then at the Academy of Hermen Anglada Camarasa, where they María Gutiérrez Blanchard met, the cousin of Germán Cueto. She also studied stone and metal sculpture. Also in 1909, she met Diego Rivera in Belgium know. With him she lived in her Paris apartment and married him two years later. Him she gave birth to a son named Diego, who died at the age of 14 months at the time of the First World War in 1917. At this time, Rivera also had a relationship with the Russian Marija Bronislawowna Worobjowa - Stebelskaja, which was known under the name " Marewna ". With her he had a daughter named Marika that he would not accept. She was an actress later. The relationship between Rivera and Beloff lasted despite these circumstances, at twelve years until 1921 Rivera finally went back to Mexico. His promise to send her the bills, he did not solve a. Eleven years later, she had saved enough money to visit Rivera in Mexico. There she realized that Rivera had already married twice again. Rivera denied ever knowing them and ignored them permanently. This fate touched the writer Elena Poniatowska a manner such that they published in 1978 a series of fictional letters Beloffs entitled " Querido Diego " ( "Dear Diego "). Beloff even earned their living in Mexico, by sculptor taught classes. She was also a member of the Liga de Artistas y Escritores Revolucionarios and 1949 co-founder of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.