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(4) Yelena (Konstantinovna) Makovskaya-Luksh [Luksch-Makowsky]
(b St Petersburg, 13 Nov 1878; d Hamburg, 15 Sept 1967). Painter, sculptor, illustrator and designer, daughter of (2) Vladimir Makovsky. She studied in St Petersburg, first at the Tenisheva Drawing School (mid-1890s) and then briefly at the Academy of Arts, where she was taught painting by Il’ya Repin and sculpture by Vladimir Beklemishev (1861–1920). In 1898 she received a grant from the pacifist Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836–1902) for foreign study. She moved to Munich where she studied, simultaneously with Vasily Kandinsky, Alexey Jawlensky and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, at Anton Azbe’s studio. She married the Austrian sculptor Richard Luksch (1872–1967) and the couple moved to Vienna, where Makovskaya-Luksh was the first female member of the Vienna Secession and a participant in the pioneering design cooperative Wiener Kunst im Hause.
Part of the Makovsky family
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