Angelina Beloff
Visual Artist
1879 – 1969
Who was Angelina Beloff?
Angelina Beloff was a Russian-born artist who did most of her work in Mexico. However, she is better known as Diego Rivera’s first wife, and her work has been overshadowed by his and that of his later wives. She studied art in Saint Petersburg and then went to begin her art career in Paris in 1909. This same year she met Rivera and married him. In 1921, Rivera returned to Mexico leaving her behind and divorcing her. She never remarried. In 1932, though her contacts with various Mexican artists, she was sponsored to live in work in the country. She worked as an art teacher, a marionette show creator and had a number of exhibits of her work in the 1950s. Most of her work was done in Mexico, using Mexican imagery, but her artistic style remained European. In 1978, writer Elena Poniatowska wrote a novel based on her life.
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- Born
- Jun 23, 1879
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- Angelina Petrovna Belova
- Белова, Ангелина Петровна
- Spouses
- Diego Rivera
(1911 - 1921)
- Diego Rivera
- Children
- Nationality
- Russia
- Education
- Imperial Academy of Arts
- Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
- Died
- Dec 30, 1969
Mexico City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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