Lyubov Popova (1889 - 1924)
Lyubov (or Liubov) was a Russian avant-garde painter, designer, teacher and art theorist who despite her fortunate life, died tragically at 35 from scarlet fever. She was born into a wealthy Russian family and received private tuition from a variety of artists at an early age, eventually ending up in the Paris studios of the cubist painters, Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger. She was a female pioneer in the Cubo-Futurism movement and her home in Moscow became a meeting place for fellow female artists Aleksandra Ekster, Nadezhda Udaltsova and Olga Rozanova. In 1916 she joined Kazimir Malevich’s Supremus Group which formed around the ideas of abstraction and Suprematism. This led to an interest in Constructivism which eventually moved her from painting and into the applied arts of graphic, set and textile design before her sudden death.
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