Magda Nachman Acharya (20 July 1889 – 12 February 1951) was a Russian-born painter, draftsman, and book illustrator.

Magda Nachman was born in Pavlovsk (a suburb of St. Petersburg), Russian Empire, into a well-to-do and cultured family.

He served as a legal adviser at the German embassy as well as to the Nobel Brothers’ Petroleum Production Company.

Her mother, Klara Emilia Maria von Roeder, was a Lutheran Baltic German.

After graduating in 1906 from the Saint Anna Gymnasium, known as the Annenschule, she began attending art classes at the Mutual Aid Society of Russian Artists.

Between 1907 and 1913, she attended the Zvantseva Art Academy, in St. Petersburg, where she studied with Léon Bakst, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

In 1917, she completed a stage design for the play Tartuffe at the Moscow Theater of Cooperatives.

After Hitler’s accession to power in 1933, Europe became too dangerous for the half-Jewish Magda Nachman and the dark-skinned Tamil Acharya.

Annual solo exhibitions at the Salon of the Institute of Foreign Languages (Bombay, since 1946) 4.