Tamara de Lempicka — painter with roots in the Russian Empire
Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish-born Art Deco painter born in Warsaw (Russian Empire) who became the most fashionable portrait painter of the 1920s-30s, capturing the elegant, decadent world of European high society in a bold, geometric style. Her self-portrait on the cover of Die Dame became one of the defining images of the decade.
Tracing the roots — Warsaw / Moscow
Born Maria Górska in Warsaw (Russian Empire) in 1898, she fled the Russian Revolution after her husband's arrest and arrived in Paris penniless. Within a decade she was the most sought-after portrait painter of the Paris elite. Her Russian Empire origins — Warsaw's Jewish and Polish bourgeoisie — gave her the outsider's eye that defined her entire artistic vision.
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Warsaw / Moscow. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.