Nadezhda Udaltsova

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Nadezhda Udaltsova (Russian: Надежда Удальцова 1886, Orel - 1961, Moscow) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist).

Udaltsova studied at private studios of Moscow, then in Paris from André Segonzac.

After returning to Russia she worked in Vladimir Tatlin's studio.

In 1915 she joined the movement of Kazimir Malevich's followers Supremus.

In 1915-1916 she together with other suprematist artists (Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Liubov Popova, Nina Genke, Olga Rozanova, Ivan Kliun, Ivan Puni, Ksenia Boguslavskaya and others) worked at the Verbovka Village Folk Centre.

After the October Revolution she taught at VKhuTeMas and Institute for Artistic Culture (InKhuK). She resigned from InKhuK in opposition to plans of replacing easel painting with industrial art.

In the 1920s, under the influence of her husband and another notable Russian avant-garde painter, Alexander Drevin, she returned to the figurative art. They were the founding members of the artistic group Thirteen. In 1929-1932 they traveled to the Altay Mountains, in 1933-1935 they worked in Armenia.

In 1938 Alexander Drevin was executed by NKVD and Udaltsova became a persona non grata in the world of Soviet art.

She died in 1961 in Moscow. Her son was rather prominent Russian sculptor Andrei Drevin (1921-1996).