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The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took
Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the
close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Leon Bakst
and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and
participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment
in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian
countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a
prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the
hardships of emigre Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to
Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a
mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.
The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took
Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the
close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Leon Bakst
and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and
participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment
in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian
countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a
prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the
hardships of emigre Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to
Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a
mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.
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