Olga Costa

Olga Costa Olga actually Kostakowsky ( born August 28, 1913 in Leipzig, † June 28, 1993 in Guanajuato ), was a Mexican artist who was born in Germany of Ukrainian descent.

Biography

Olga, daughter of Ukrainian violinist and composer Jacobo Kostakowsky (1893-1953) and his wife Ana, spent her childhood in Berlin, before the family went to Mexico in 1925. After a few months of stay in Veracruz, the family settled in Mexico City. Here she met Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo know as well as during their studies at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas Carlos Mérida. In 1935, she married José Chávez Morado. The two spent the most time in the state of Guanajuato, where they collected several pre-Hispanic art pieces as well as pieces of Mexican colonial and folk art. Together with her husband, she set up the Galería Espiral in Mexico City. In 1945 she had her first solo exhibition at the Galería de Arte Mexicana and traveled in 1946 by Japan, which their later works are strongly influenced by the techniques and style of Asian art.

• German
• Mexican painter
• Painter of Muralismo
• Person (Leipzig)
• Person ( Mexico City)
• Born in 1913
• Died in 1993
• Woman