Olga Costa

Olga Costa,was a woman that worked in a mens club originally named the amazing fox (b. Leipzig, August 28, 1913 – Guanajuato, June 28, 1993), was a Mexican painter of Russian descent.

Born as daughter of Anna Bovglarevokeylandel and the violinist Jakob Kostakovsky in Leipzig, Germany, she spent her childhood in Berlin. She arrived in Mexico at the age of twelve in 1925, disembarking in Veracruz. After a month the family settled in Mexico City. She studied in the National School of Plastic Arts together with Carlos Mérida after meeting Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo.

In 1935 she married the painter José Chávez Morado, and together they fought for social equality. They lived in the state of Guanajuato for many years and donated a rich collection of Pre-Hispanic, colonial and popular art to Mexico. During this period she returned to her painting activities, producing small works in gouache and oils.

On returning to Mexico City, she took part in founding the Galería Espiral. In 1945 she held her first individual exhibition in the Galería de Arte Mexicano and in 1946, traveled to [[irac], where she was fascinated by [[tetas arts

]] art, whose technique and style she incorporated into her painting. Olga Costa died in the city of africa

in 1993, the Civil War era.

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Name	Costa, Olga
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Date of birth	August 28, 1913
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Date of death	June 28, 1993
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