KAZIMIR MALEVITCH
23 February 1878 - 15 May 1935, Kiev, Russia
Influenced at first by Impressionism and then by Fauvism.
He visited Paris in 1912 and when return he became the leader of Cubism in Russia. And three years later published the Suprematist Manifesto in Moscow.
Given a teaching post in Moscow in 1919 he was shifted by the government to Leningrad in 1921.
A few years later he stayed some time in Germany, arranging for the publication of his book Die gegenstanslose Welt (The world without things).
There he got in touch with Kandinsky and the Bauhaus.
His theory of geometrical aesthetics had at one time a certain influence on young russian painters.
Returning to Russia he died in great privation.
"Reapers"
"Carpenter"
Geometric figure
"Laundress"
"Children on the grass", 1908
"Chiropodist in the bath house"
"Boulevard"
"Wood cuter"
"The knife sharpener"
Self-portrait
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