Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya

Olga Lyudvigovna Della-Vos-Kardovskaya (Russian: О́льга Лю́двиговна Де́лла-Вос-Кардо́вская; 14 September [O.S. 2 September] 1875 – 9 August 1952) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Modernist period.^[1]

Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya
Ольга Делла-Вос-Кардовская
Self-Portrait, 1917, oil on canvas, 67.6 by 65.6 cm; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Born	Olga Lyudvigovna Della-Vos 14 September [O.S. 2 September] 1875 Chernigov, Russian Empire
Died	9 August 1952(1952-08-09) (aged 76) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Resting place	Bogoslovskoe Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Citizenship	Russia Soviet Union
Education	Vasily Savinsky [ru] Ilya Repin
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for	Portrait painting
Spouse	Dmitry Kardovsky ​ ​ (m. 1899; died 1943)​

From 1891 until 1894 she studied at the Schneider School in Kharkov; from 1894 to 1899 she was a student at the Academy in Saint Petersburg. She went to Munich to study at Anton Ažbe's school, staying there from 1899 to 1900. In April 1899, she married fellow painter Dmitry Kardovsky.^[2] Her mother, Mariya Della-Vos was a Bulgarian from Odessa and member of the Toshkovic family and daughter of Stefan Toshkovich and sister from Nikola Toshkovich.^[3]

Between 1903 and 1917, she exhibited with the New Society of Artists; from 1911 until 1916 she also exhibited with the Union of Russian Artists. She was associated with the Zhar-tsvet group from 1924 to 1928. She was included in a large 1927 exhibit in Moscow commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Works

Works by Della-Vos-Kardovskaya from the pre-Revolutionary years, in public domain

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  Little Woman, portrait of the Kardovsky's daughter Yekaterina, 1910, oil on canvas, 129.5 by 110.5 cm; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
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  Nikolai Gumilev, 1909, oil on canvas, 105 by 80 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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  Anna Akhmatova, 1914, oil on canvas, 85 by 82 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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  Dmitry Kardovsky, 1913, oil on canvas, 67 by 64 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow