Kazimir Malevich

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Kazimir Malevich is a pioneer of the Suprematism movement in Art and is known for his works like the 'Black Square' and 'Suprematist Composition'

Feb 23, 1879

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Personal Details

  • Birthday: February 23, 1879
  • Died on: May 15, 1935
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Famous: Artists & Painters, Artists
  • Known as: Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
  • Universities:
    • Moscow School of Painting
    • Sculpture and Architecture
  • Birth Place: Kiev

Kazimir Malevich born at

Kiev

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Birth Place

On 15 May, 1935, Malevich passed away after a long bout with lung cancer. His famous creation 'Black Square' was hung on the wall above his deathbed.

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Personal Life

A non-profit charity named 'The Rectangular Circle of Friends of Kazimierz Malewicz' was founded in 2013. The charity's goal is to promote awareness of Kazimir's Polish ethnicity.

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Personal Life

Kazimir Malevich aka Kazimierz Malewicz was born on February 23, 1879 in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire. His parents, father Ludwika, and mother, Seweryn Malewicz, were native of Poland and Roman Catholics, religious refugees from the Kopyl Region of Belarus.

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Childhood & Early Life

He was born to a large family, being one of 14 children. Five of his siblings did not survive childhood.

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Childhood & Early Life

His father worked as a shift manager at a sugar factory. His job required him to tour sugar beet plantations and he often took his family along with him for these extended trips.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1895, Malevich studied drawing at a local school in Kiev. The following year he moved to Kursk and continued painting.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1904, Malevich's father died and using his inheritance, the aspiring painter moved to Moscow and enrolled at the ‘Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture’.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1910 after graduating from the school, his artistic skills greatly improved under the tutelage of famed painter Fedor Rerberg. The next year, Malevich had one of his paintings shown at a prestigious exhibition in St. Petersburg.

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Career

In 1912, he developed his 'Cubo-Futuristic' style of painting. During the same year, he participated in his third exhibition in St. Petersburg and his first in Moscow.

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Career

In 1914, the talented painter created and designed the stage set of the opera 'Victory Over the Sun'. The opera played to packed houses and made Malevich a celebrity. In the same year, he exhibited his paintings in the renowned 'Salon des Independants' in Paris, France.

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Career

In 1915, he developed the foundations of Suprematism in his first book, 'From Cubism to Suprematism'. For the next year, he lived in an artists' cooperative in the village of Verbovka, where he produced his masterpiece 'Black Square'.

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Career

In 1916, his paintings were featured as part of the 'Jack of Diamonds' artists' group that included Nathan Altman, David Burliuk and Aleksandra Ekster. It was during this period that he painted 'Suprematist Composition'.

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Career

Malevich's most notable works were the inventive paintings 'Black Square', first released in 1915, and its companion piece, 'White On White', created in three years later.

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Major Works

His painting the 'Black Square' was purchased in an auction in 1933 for $250,000. In 2002, the painting was sold at auction for $1 million.

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Major Works

The painting 'Suprematist Composition' was sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York for $60 million.

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Major Works