Marie vassilieff biography

Biography

Marie Vassilieff

, Smolensk, Russiaine , Nogent-sur-Marne, France

Marie Vassiliéff, (February 12, – May 14, ) was a Russian painter.

She was born in Smolensk, Russia to a prosperous family who encouraged her to study medicine.

Her natural instincts, however, were for the arts and, in she switched to the study of art at the Academy in St. Petersburg. In she visited the artistic capital of the world, Paris, France.

Two years later, she moved to Paris, taking a job as a correspondent for several Russian newspapers while studying painting under Henri Matisse and attending classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

In she founded the Académie Russe (Russian Academy), which was renamed the following year as, the Académie Vassilieff.

Marie Vassilieff became an integral part of the great creative community of Montparnasse, where today one may still see her ornamental panels, created in for the pillars in the dining roo