Olga Rozanova

Residencia · 1896–1904

Vladimir

Residencia

Moves to Vladimir, to her aunt's house

She moves to Vladimir and settles in the house of her aunt Maria Vasilievna Orlova at 10 Borisoglebskaya Street (now Muzeynaya Street), in the intellectual centre of the old town.

Formación · 1896–1904

Vladimir Women's Gymnasium: good and excellent marks

All the Rozanov girls attend the Vladimir Women's Gymnasium; Olga is there in 1896–1904, with good and excellent marks, and writes poetry. She is friends with the neighbouring Kaznacheev family, who are keen on antiquities and Freemasonry.

Familia · 1903–1904 · Vladimir

The gymnasium boarding house after her father's early death

After the early death of her father she lives in the gymnasium's boarding house in 1903–1904.

Residencia · 1904–1910

Moscow

Lugar de trabajo · 1904–1918

Moscow

Formación · November 1906

To Moscow: Bolshakov's school of painting

She goes to Moscow and enrols in Anatoly Petrovich Bolshakov's private School of Painting and Sculpture (4 Myasnitsky Proezd), studying alongside graduates of the Mstera icon-painting school, among them Fyodor Modorov, a future pillar of Socialist Realism. She rents a room on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street; her student studies of these years are among her earliest known works.

Encuentro · late 1907 · Moscow

The Yuon and Ulyanov school; friendship with Lyubov Popova

She enters the art school of Konstantin Yuon and Nikolai Ulyanov; in Nina Guryanova's view, the lessons there did most to shape her artistic development. The studio's students of drawing and painting include the future avant-gardists Lyubov Popova, with whom Rozanova became friends as early as 1907, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Sergei Sharshun, and in 1914–1915 Varvara Stepanova.

Formación · August 1907 · Moscow

Refused by the Stroganov School

She tries to enter the Imperial Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art but is refused and continues to study in private studios. An obituary of 1919 says she did attend the school briefly, dissatisfied with its system of teaching; the art historian Nina Guryanova thinks she may have attended for a time as an auditor.

Encuentro · early 1910 · Saint Petersburg

Meets Kulbin; the founding of the Union of Youth

In St. Petersburg she meets Nikolai Kulbin and through him Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro, in whose apartment she takes part in founding the artists' society Union of Youth.

Afiliación · 1910–1914

Soyuz Molodyozhi

Residencia · 1911–1916

Saint Petersburg

Lugar de trabajo · 1911–1913

Saint Petersburg

Residencia · Saint Petersburg

Moves to St. Petersburg; the Zvantseva school

She moves from Moscow to St. Petersburg and studies at Elizaveta Zvantseva's art school, where Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin were then teaching, but soon leaves it.

Encuentro · Saint Petersburg

Closeness to the circle of Burliuk, Malevich and Mayakovsky

At the same time she grows close to David Burliuk, Pavel Filonov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Carrera · 1911–1914 · Saint Petersburg

A key member of the Union of Youth

After moving to St. Petersburg she takes part in all the exhibitions of the Union of Youth (April 1911, January 1912, October 1913 – January 1914), becomes one of its key members and writes theoretical articles for the almanac Union of Youth.

Encuentro

Meets Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh

She meets the Futurist poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh. With Kruchenykh she has a close, intimate relationship: they part several times and do not live together for long.

Exposición · March 1912 · Moscow

A joint exhibition of the Donkey's Tail and the Union of Youth

In Moscow, at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, she takes part in a joint exhibition of the artists of the Donkey's Tail and the Union of Youth.

Publicación · 1913–1914

The book “Te li le” with Kruchenykh: colour hectography

With Kruchenykh she publishes the book “Te li le”, using the technique of colour hectography; their creative partnership gives rise to a unique style of the Russian Futurist book.

Evento

Kruchenykh's book “Vozropshchem” is dedicated to her

Kruchenykh's book of poetry “Vozropshchem” is published with the dedication “To the first woman artist of Petrograd, O. Rozanova”.

Exposición · October 1913 – April 1916 · Saint Petersburg

Exhibitions at the Dobychina Art Bureau

At N. E. Dobychina's Art Bureau she exhibits in the Permanent Exhibition of Contemporary Painting (October 1913, St. Petersburg), the exhibition of paintings of the Left Currents (April 1915, Petrograd) and the exhibition “Contemporary Russian Painting” (April 1916, Petrograd).

Lugar de trabajo

Rome

Exposición · April – May 1914

A Futurist exhibition in Rome at Marinetti's invitation

At Marinetti's invitation she is one of four Russian artists — along with A. P. Archipenko, N. I. Kulbin and A. A. Exter — to take part in the First International Futurist Exhibition in Rome (Sprovieri Gallery, Russian section).

Obra · 1915–1916

Collage in the Futurist book: “Zaumnaya gniga” and “War”

In 1915 she uses collage in illustrating Kruchenykh and Alyagrov's “Zaumnaya gniga”, and in 1915–1916, together with Kruchenykh, she uses the collage method in the Futurist book — notably in the 1916 album “War” with Kruchenykh's poems. In all, they created 18 books together. Under Kruchenykh's influence Rozanova writes zaum poems, while he, under her influence, turns to abstract art and makes a book of colour collages, “Universal War”.

Evento

Mayakovsky dedicates a cycle of poems to her

Vladimir Mayakovsky dedicates to Olga Rozanova a cycle of three poems with the inscription “To bright O. V. R. — these verses”.

Exposición · March 1915 · Petrograd

The First Futurist exhibition “Tramway V”

She takes part in the First Futurist Exhibition of Paintings “Tramway V” in the small hall of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in Petrograd.

Exposición · December 1915 · Petrograd

The “Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10”

She takes part in the “Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10” in Petrograd.

Residencia · 1916 – 7 de noviembre de 1918

Moscow

Carrera

Secretary of Malevich's Supremus society

She becomes secretary of the Supremus society headed by Kazimir Malevich. By this time her style has developed from Cubism and Italian Futurism towards pure abstraction, in which composition is built on visual weight and the interrelation of colours.

Obra

“Green Line”

Carrera · Moscow

The artists' union board and work “for potatoes”

After the February Revolution she joins the Board of the Professional Union of Painters of Moscow, and to make a living works at the Union of Cities — “for potatoes”.

Carrera · after October 1917 · Moscow

The newspaper Anarchy and banners for May Day

After the October Revolution she writes for the newspaper Anarchy and takes part in decorating Moscow for the May Day holiday as an embroiderer of banners.

Exposición · December 1917 · Moscow

Second exhibition of decorative art “Verbovka”

She takes part in the Second Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative Art “Verbovka” in Moscow.

Exposición · April 1918 · Tbilisi

An exhibition of Moscow Futurists in Tiflis

She takes part in the exhibition of paintings and drawings by Moscow Futurists in Tiflis.

Exposición · May – July 1918 · Moscow

The first exhibition of the Professional Union of Artists

She takes part in the First Exhibition of Paintings of the Professional Union of Artists in Moscow.

Carrera · 22 June 1918 · Moscow

Head of the sub-department of art industry

She is appointed head of the sub-department of art industry in the Visual Arts Department of the People's Commissariat for Education. With Alexander Rodchenko she prepares for reform a number of large art-industrial centres in Mstera, Bogorodsk and Ivanovo, and also takes part in decorating Moscow for the anniversary of the revolution.

In service · octubre de 1918

Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry