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eng Automatic Translation

Alena Kish

1889 – 1949

Primitive artist.

She painted many works using rough homespun canvases, homemade glue paints and stencils, which she sometimes even cut out from potatoes.

She had no art education.

All my life I earned with the help of creativity - I went to the villages and painted carpets to order. The artist was paid not with money, but with cereals or bread.

In her native village, she was considered a person "not of this world." Soon, the industry of the USSR learned to produce carpets, and the artist's work turned out to be useless to anyone. She starved and in desperation committed suicide at the age of 60.

Very little is known about the rest of the artist's biography.

The work of the artist became available and known to the public posthumously.

Selected events

Selected artworks

Associated institutions

Articles on KALEKTAR

Associated Documents

Selected dates:

1889

She was born in the village of Romanovo , Slutsk povet, Minsk province (Russian Empire, now the village of Lenino, Minsk region, Republic of Belarus).

1949

She committed suicide .

1978

The works were presented at the First Republican Exhibition of Folk Carpets. The carpets were collected and presented by the artist Vladimir Basalyga.

2010

The film studio "Belarusfilm" created a documentary film about the fate of the artist "Malyavany Rai" ("Painted Paradise"), directed by Galina Adamovich.