Varvara Bubnova was a Russian painter, graphic artist and pedagogue.
Background
She was born in Saint St. Petersburg into the family of Dmitry Kapitonovich Bubnov (?–1914), a bank clerk of lower rank. Her mother Anna Nikolaevna (maiden name Wolfe) (1854–1940) descended from an old noble Russian family and was distantly related to Alexander Pushkin.
Education
From 1903 to 1905, Bubnova studied in the studio of Art Promotion Sosiety.
Career
From 1907 until 1914 she studied in the Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1917 until 1922. Bubnova lived in Moscow and worked for the Institute of Artistic Culture with among others Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Falk, Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, Alexander Rodchenko.
In 1923, she moved to Japan where she lived until 1958.
During her time there, Bubnova was mainly painting water-colours and lithographs.
Membership
In 1910 she became a member of the Youth Union and participated in art exhibitions with Mayakovsky, Burlyuk, Larionov, Goncharova, and Malevich.