Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya
Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya  | |
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| 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 September 14 [O.S. September 2] 1875  | 
| Died | August 9, 1952 | 
| Resting place | Bogoslovskoe Cemetery, St. Petersburg | 
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| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts | 
| Known for | Portrait painting | 
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Olga Lyudvigovna Della-Vos-Kardovskaya (Russian: О́льга Лю́двиговна Де́лла-Вос-Кардо́вская) (1875, Chernigov, Russian Empire – 1952, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian and Ukrainian painter and draughtsman. 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. 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.
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.