BYCHKOVA-KOLTSOVA ALEKSANDRA GRIGORYEVNA (1892-1985)

Painter, graphic artist, decorative artist. Studied at the technical school of decorative art, at the Stroganov Industrial Art School (1912-1916) under P.P.Pashkov, at the Higher Art and Technical Workshops (1918-21) under A.A.Osmyorkin, A.A. Vesnin, N.P.Ulyanov, S.Noakovsky, L.Popova. Worked at the Children's Puppet Theatre as a scene-painter, at the Bolshoi Theatre as a costume-designer. In 1928 she was sent by the People's Commissariat of Public Education to Paris where she spent four years. She participated in exhibitions of 1919. Displayed her works in exhibition halls of Russia and abroad: Paris (1929, a personal exhibition, 1930, 1931), Florence (1937). Her works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of the History of Moscow, the Literary Museum, regional museums and private collections of Russia, France, Germany