Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya

Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya
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 Chernihiv, Russian Empire
Died	August 9, 1952 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Resting place	Bogoslovskoe Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Nationality	Russian Soviet
Education	Vasily Savinsky Ilya Repin
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for	Portrait painting
Spouse	Dmitry Kardovsky ​ ​ (m. 1899; died 1943)​

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.

Works

Works by Della-Vos-Kardovskaya from pre-Revolutionary years, in public domain

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  Little Woman, portrait of the Kardovsky's daughter Yekaterina, 1910, oil on canvas, 129.5 by 110.5 cm; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
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  Nikolai Gumilev, 1909, oil on canvas, 105 by 80 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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  Anna Akhmatova, 1914, oil on canvas, 85 by 82 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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  Dmitry Kardovsky, 1913, oil on canvas, 67 by 64 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Further reading

• Manucharova, Darya A. (2024). "Портретное творчество О. Л. Делла-Вос-Кардовской в контексте русского искусства 1900–1930-х годов" (PDF). Художественная культура (in Russian) (2). Moscow: State Institute for Art Studies: 220–249. doi:10.51678/2226-0072-2024-2-220-249. eISSN 2226-0072.
• Milner, John (1993). A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420–1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 118, with Anna Akhmatova as ill. p. 119. ISBN 1-85149-182-1. OCLC 29787870.
• Voltsenburg, Oskar E. [in Russian]; et al., eds. (1976). "Делла-Вос-Кардовская, Ольга Людвиговна". Художники народов СССР (in Russian). Vol. 3. Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 319.