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Kazimir Malevich
Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 February 1879, 23 February 1879
- Died
- 15 May 1935
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Kazimir
- Movement
- Suprematism, Russian avant-garde, Constructivism
- Field of work
- avant-garde, visual art activity, art history, Suprematism, visual arts, abstract art
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, printmaker, scenographer, costume designer, draftsperson, art theorist, designer, visual artist, art historian, pedagogue, graphic artist
- Position held
- museum director
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Казиміръ Малевичъ
- catalogue raisonné
- Kasimir Malewicz. Catalogue raisonné
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), UbuWeb, Faces of Moscow, The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World: Tome 3
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- employer
- Vitebsk People's Art School
- has works in the collection
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, National Gallery of Art, Marian Kropyvnytskyi Personal Archive, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, State Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Mystetskyi Arsenal
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Supremus
- name in native language
- Kazimierz Malewicz
- notable work
- Black Square (1915), Suprematist Composition, Suprematist Composition: White on White, An Englishman in Moscow, The Knife Grinder
- participant in
- Documenta II, documenta 8
- patronym or matronym
- Severinovich
- political ideology
- communism
- significant event
- claim for restitution of an artwork
- student
- Emma Hurovych
- topic's main category
- Category:Kazimir Malevich
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