Kasimir Severinovich Malevich ( Kasimir Sewerinowitsch Malewitsch * 1879 † 1935 )

Artist Kazimir Malevich

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Kasimir Malevich Self-Portrait

The painter Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was born in 1879 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was a leading figure of the Russian avant-garde, a pioneer of constructivism, and the founder of suprematism. He was influenced by late Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. His abstract suprematist painting Black Square on White Ground from 1915 is considered a milestone of modern painting and is referred to as the "Icon of Modernity."

Malevich grew up in humble circumstances. His rudimentary school education was completed with an apprenticeship at an agricultural school. However, his interest in drawing from nature awakened in him as early as age 13. With a position as a technical draftsman, he was able to save enough money to pursue studies at the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Moscow.

His initial experience was in 1904 when he saw Claude Monet's painting of the Rouen Cathedral, from that moment he considered himself an Impressionist. His first public exhibition took place in 1907 in Moscow alongside the then-unknown artist Wassily Kandinsky. Turning to Cubo-Futurism, he created paintings like The Woodcutter, which was also featured in the International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York in 1913. That same year, his work on the stage design for an opera marked the birth of suprematism: on a stage curtain, Malevich painted the first Black Square. Although exhibitions with suprematist images received rather scathing reviews, they marked the breakthrough to non-objective, abstract art. As a master of abstraction, he influenced numerous artists, including Piet Mondrian's style of Neoplasticism.

A radical shift in Malevich's work from the late 1920s was the return to figurative painting with suprematist elements. He dedicated it to the beloved peasants suffering under the forced collectivization of agriculture, which was expressed in his new style. In 1935, Malevich died of cancer in Leningrad.

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