Lyubov Popova

Lyubov Popova was a Russian avant-garde painter and designer. Born on 24 April 1889 near Moscow into the family of a wealthy textile merchant, she studied in Moscow with Stanislav Zhukovsky and Konstantin Yuon, and in 1912–13 at the Académie de La Palette in Paris under the Cubist painters Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger. Back in Moscow she worked with Vladimir Tatlin and became one of the first women to paint in the Cubo-Futurist style. In 1916 she joined Kazimir Malevich's Supremus group and began her abstract series of Painterly Architectonics. From 1921 she devoted herself to Constructivism, designing the stage set for Vsevolod Meyerhold's production of The Magnanimous Cuckold (1922), as well as textiles, books and posters. She died of scarlet fever in Moscow on 25 May 1924.