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Marie Bashkirtseff ( November 11, 1858 - October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian diarist, painter and sculptor
Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy , Poltava, Ukraine to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. Educated privately, she studied painting in France at the Académie Julian and would go on to produce a remarkable body of work in her short lifetime, the most famous being the portrait of Paris slum children titled The Meeting and In the Studio, (shown here) a portrait of her fellow artists at work. Unfortunately, a large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.
From the age of 13, she began keeping a journal, and it is for this she is most famous. Her personal account of the struggles of women artists is documented in her published journals but it is a revealing story of the bourgeoisie. Titled, I Am the Most Interesting Book of All, her popular diary is still in print today. Her letters, consisting of her correspondence with the writer Guy de Maupassant, were published in 1891.
Dying of tuberculosis at the age of 23, Bashkirtseff lived just long enough to become an intellectual powerhouse of Paris in the 1880s. A feminist, in 1881, using the nom de plume "Pauline Orrel," she wrote several articles for Hubertine AuclertHubertine Auclert April 10, 1848 died August 4, 1914, was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage. Born in the Allier departement in the Auvergne region of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Auclert's father died when she's feminist newspaper, La CitoyenneLa Citoyenne The Citizeness was a feminist newspaper first published in Paris, France on February 13, 1881 by activist Hubertine Auclert (1848-1914). Published bi-monthly, the newspaper was a forceful and unrelenting advocate for women's enfranchisement,. One of her famous quotes is: Let us love dogs, let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.
She is buried in Cimetière de PassyThe Cimetiere de Passy is a famous cemetery located in 2, rue du Commandant Schoelsing, in the quarter of Passy in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. In the early 19th century, several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones. Outside the prec, Paris, France. Her monument is a full-sized artist studio that has been declared a historic monument by the government of France.
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Bashkirtseff, Marie
