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The Museum of Avant-garde

Kazimir Maljevič

Ukraine (1878—1935)

Kazimir Malevich was born in Kiev to a family of Polish origin. After his father’s death, he moved to Moscow to study art. He exhibited with Jack of Diamonds, The Donkey’s Tail and Soyuz Molodyozhi, developed a Cubo-Futurist style and designed the sets for the opera Victory over the Sun. In 1915 he published From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism and took part in the 0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting in Petrograd. After the Revolution, he taught at the Vitebsk Art School, where he founded the Suprematist group UNOVIS in 1920, and later directed the Institute of Artistic Culture in Leningrad. In 1927 he travelled to Warsaw and Berlin. As Soviet cultural policy restricted the avant-garde, he returned to figurative painting. He died in Leningrad in 1935.

Vladimir Tatlin