![Textile design by Russian avant-garde artist Varvara Stepanova, 1924
Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
She came from peasant origins but was fortunate enough to get an education at Kazan School of Art, Odessa. There she met her life-long friend and collaborator Alexander Rodchenko. In the years before the Russian Revolution of 1917 they leased an apartment in Moscow, owned by Wassily Kandinsky. In the years following the revolution, Stepanova contributed work to the Fifth State Exhibition and the Tenth State Exhibition, both in 1919. She designed Cubo-Futurist work for several artists’ books. She designed the sets for The Death of Tarelkin in 1922. She carried out her ideal of engaging with industrial production in the following year when she became designer of textiles at the Tsindel (the First State Textile Factory) near Moscow, and in 1924 became professor of textile design at the Vkhutemas (Higher Technical Artistic Studios) while continuing typography, book design and contributing to the magazine LEF. [source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp9fr9zbDn1qzvxbko1_400.jpg)
Textile design by Russian avant-garde artist Varvara Stepanova, 1924
Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
She came from peasant origins but was fortunate enough to get an education at Kazan School of Art, Odessa. There she met her life-long friend and collaborator Alexander Rodchenko. In the years before the Russian Revolution of 1917 they leased an apartment in Moscow, owned by Wassily Kandinsky. In the years following the revolution, Stepanova contributed work to the Fifth State Exhibition and the Tenth State Exhibition, both in 1919. She designed Cubo-Futurist work for several artists’ books. She designed the sets for The Death of Tarelkin in 1922. She carried out her ideal of engaging with industrial production in the following year when she became designer of textiles at the Tsindel (the First State Textile Factory) near Moscow, and in 1924 became professor of textile design at the Vkhutemas (Higher Technical Artistic Studios) while continuing typography, book design and contributing to the magazine LEF. [source]
