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Vera Mukhina (1889-1953)
Aliases: Vera Ignat'evna Muchina; Vera Ignatjewna Muchina; Wera Ignatjewna Muchina; Vera Ignatievna Mukhina; Vera Ignaťyevna Mukhina; Wera Ignatjewna Muschina; Vera Ignatjewna Mushina
Professions: Sculptor
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Vera Ignatierna Mukhina (1889-1953) Landscape with village and church 27 x 37in.
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MUKHINA, VERA Years: 1889-1953 Self-Portraitcarved
Vera Mukhina Biography
(b Riga, 19 June 1889; d Moscow, 6 Oct 1953). Russian sculptor and decorative artist of Latvian birth. From the mid-1900s until 1912 she attended various private art schools in Moscow, including that of Il’ya Mashkov, but her real training as a sculptor began in 1912, when she travelled to Paris. Until 1914 she took an active part in the artistic life of Paris, attending the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, taking lessons from Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, and making many acquaintances, among them Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, and also Lyubov’ Popova, with whom she travelled to Italy in 1914. After returning to Moscow following the outbreak of World War I, Mukhina worked for a time as scenographic assistant to Alexandra Exter in the Kamerny Theatre of Aleksandr Tairov (1885–1950) and also designed costumes independently for a number of plays, none of which was produced. Mukhina again joined forces with Exter in 1923, when both women worked on fabric and dress designs for the newly opened Atel’ye Mody (Atelier of Fashion) in Moscow; she also helped Exter with the costumes for the film Aelita (1924).
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