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Also known as T. de Lempicka, Tamara née Gorska, Tamara Gorska, Tamara DeLempicka, Barones Kuffner, Tamara Lempicka, de Lempicka Tamara

Polish painter (1894-1980)

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Tamara de Lempicka, born Tamara Hurwitz in 1898, was a female painter and artist. She held citizenship in the Russian Empire and Poland. Her artistic training included studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under Maurice Denis and André Lhote. She is associated with the Art Deco movement and worked in the genres of portrait, still life, and nude painting.

Her notable work includes the Autoportrait. She spoke Polish, Russian, French, and English. Her career took her to Paris, Italy, Havana, and Cuernavaca. She died in Cuernavaca in 1980 and is buried at Popocatépetl. Her works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée National d'Art Moderne, National Museum in Kraków, and Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans. She had a sibling named Adrienne Gorska.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Maria
Gender
female
Citizenship
Poland
Place of birth
Warsaw
Place of death
Cuernavaca
Occupation
artist
Languages spoken
English language
Notable work
Autoportrait
Student of
André Lhote
Field of work
painting
Genre
nude
Movement
Art Deco
Official website
www.delempicka.org
Image
Tamara Łempicka ssj 20060914 - cropped.jpg
Work location
New York City
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Commons category
Tamara de Lempicka
date of birth
1898-05-16
date of death
1980-03-18
Commons Creator page
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topic's main category
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place of burial
Popocatépetl
birth name
Tamara Hurwitz
name in native language
Tamara Łempicka
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Encyclopedic overview

Tamara Łempicka ( pronounced [taˈmara wɛmˈpit͡ska] ; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980), known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.

Born in Warsaw, records have long asserted her birth name was Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska, though documents have uncovered her name as Tamara Rosa Hurwitz. She briefly moved to Saint Petersburg where she married Tadeusz Łempicki, a prominent Polish lawyer, then travelled to Paris. She studied painting with Maurice Denis and André Lhote. Her style was a blend of late, refined cubism and the neoclassical style, particularly inspired by the work of Jean-Dominique Ingres. She was an active participant in the artistic and social life of Paris between the wars. In 1928, she became the mistress of Baron Raoul Kuffner, a wealthy art collector from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, divorcing Tadeusz Łempicki that same year. After the death of Kuffner's wife in 1933, Łempicka married Kuffner in 1934, and thereafter she became known in the press as "The Baroness with a Brush".

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