Nadezhda udaltsova biography channel

Russian artist. Name variations: Nadezhda Andreevna Udaltsova. Born in in Orel, Russia; died in ; studied at Moscow School of Painting, at a school run by Konstantin Yuon, and with various artists in Paris and in Russia; married second husband Aleksandr Drevin (a painter), in s (died ).

Nadezhda Udaltsova was born in the small town of Orel, Russia, in She and her three sisters grew up under the strict discipline of their military father and the tender care of their mother, who loved art and taught her daughters to draw.

"Drawing was a second life to us," said Udaltsova.

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"We invented people and children and depicted them as if they were alive. We took the subjects from our own environment and from the books we read."

An introverted child, Udaltsova moved with her parents at the age of six to Moscow, where she attended school.

After graduating from high school with distinction, she began training at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architec