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Born in Moscow, to a family of German origin, the artist
lived in Moscow until 1914. She was influenced by the French
Impressionists. She was taken as a prisoner of war in the
first World War and taken to Baveria, where she was exchanged
with Russian prisoners of war. After the war, she settled in
Munich, Germany and studied arts at the Munich Academy of Fine
Arts.
She has moved to Cyprus in 1925, where she settled in and married
to a Turkish-Cypriot Dr.Mehmet Rauf. Since that time, and until her
death in 1987 she lived and worked in Cyprus. She painted the Cypriot
nature and village life in her paintings with an impressionist style.
Olga Rauf participated in many exhibitions both in Cyprus and abroad since
1925. Her last exhibition was the 1982 retrospective Exhibition of
the Association of Visual Artists, in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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"A View from old Nicosia" (39.5 x 65 cm) |
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"A street in Kyrenia" (17 x 26 cm) |
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