Olga Kostakowsky

Place: Leipzig

Born: 1913

Death: 1993

Biography:

Olga Costa, also known as Olga Kostakowsky, was a Mexican painter and cultural promoter. She was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1913 and moved to Mexico with her family in 1925. She began studying art at the Academy of San Carlos but left after three months to help support her family. She met her husband, artist José Chávez Morado, during this time. She had numerous exhibitions of her work in Mexico and the United States, and was involved in the founding and development of various galleries, cultural societies and museums in the state of Guanajuato. She received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes among others for her work. She died in Guanajuato in 1993.