Olga
Alekseevna Chachua-Selezneva

Russia • 1902−2004

Biografía e información

Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Born in 1902 in Batumi. To draw beginning from the age of 16. He studied at the local art Studio. Together with her husband, the artist Vladimir Seleznev - in 1934 he moved to Moscow, where he graduated from the art Studio of the Amateur sector of the MOOSKH. The painting she was taught by an outstanding Russian painter and theater artist Peter Williams, and schedule - an outstanding master of Russian prints and book design, artist, muralist, educator and art theorist, member of the USSR Academy of arts, people's artist of the USSR Vladimir Favorsky. Tabor gave Olga Selezneva (she took her husband's name) your etching on the reverse side of which wished her not to waste her talent. Etching is stored in the Batumi Museum.

Olga Selezneva has participated in many exhibitions, in particular, in Moscow, Riga. Her solo exhibitions were held in Batumi, where since 1962 the couple settled permanently.

O. Selezneva works are in museums, including foreign ones, in many private collections in different countries of the world.

Died Olga Selezneva in 2004. In 100 years, almost blind, she did her last, the size of a small watercolor. The artist was the big press, which appreciated the talent of the artist.