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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
(Казимир
Северин&
#1086;вич
Малевич,
Polish language|Polish Malewicz, Ukrainian
language|Ukrainian transliteration Malevych,
German language|German Kasimir Malewitsch),
(February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a
painter and art theoretician, pioneer of
Geometric_abstract_art|geometric abstract art and
one of the most important members of the so-called
Russian avantgarde.

Malevich was born in Kiev, Ukraine, under the
Russian Empire. He studied at the Kiev School of
Art (1895–1896), the Moscow School of
Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
(1904–1910) and in the studio of Fedor
Rerberg in Moscow (1904–1910).

After early experiments with various modernist
styles including Cubism and Futurism
(art)|Futurism — as exemplified by his
http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Drama/pl
ays/victory/1victory.html costume and set work on
the Cubo-Futurist opera Victory Over the
Sun — in 1915, in Petrograd, he
introduced his abstract, non-objective geometric
patterns in a style and artistic movement he
called Suprematism; famous examples include Black
Square (1913) and White on White (1918).


Malevich was a member of the Collegium on the Arts
of Narkompros, the commission for the protection
of monuments and the museums commission (all from
1918–1919); later on, he taught at the
Vitebsk Practical Art School in Russia (now part
of Belarus) (1919–1922), the Leningrad
Academy of Arts (1922–1927), the Kiev State
Art Institute (1927–1929) and the House of
the Arts in Leningrad (1930). He wrote the book
The World as Non-Objectivity (Munich 1926; English
trans. 1976) on his theories.

When the Stalinism|Stalinist regime turned against
Modernism|modernist "Bourgeoisie|bourgeois" art,
Malevich was persecuted. Many of his works were
confiscated or destroyed, and he died in poverty
and oblivion in Leningrad, Soviet Union (today
Saint Petersburg, Russia).

==See also==
* Alexander Brener
* El Lissitzky
* UNOVIS

== External links ==
*
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/malevich/b_squa
re.jpg.html "Black Square"
*
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/20_ptg.
html "White on White"
*
http://www.potemkinpress.com/english/pubs/malewits
ch.htm "Malevich on Film"
*
http://www.ce-review.org/99/3/ondisplay3_hunter.ht
ml "Victory Over the Sun" discussed

== Selected Works ==
*1912 Morning in the Country after Snowstorm 
*1912 The Woodcutter 
*1912-13 Reaper on Red Background 
*1913 1923-29 Black Circle 
*1913 1923-29 Black Square 
*1914 The Aviator 
*1914 An Englishman in Moscow 
*1914 Soldier of the First Division 
*1915 Black Square and Red Square 
*1915 Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant
Woman in Two Dimensions 
*1915 Suprematist Composition 
*1915 Suprematism (1915) 
*1915 Suprematist Painting: Aeroplane Flying 
*1915 Suprematism: Self-Portrait in Two Dimensions

*1915-16 Suprematist Painting (Ludwigshafen) 
*1916 Suprematist Painting (1916) 
*1916 Supremus No. 56 
*1916 Suprematism (Supremus No. 58) 
*1916-17 Suprematism (1916-17) 
*1917 Suprematist Painting (1917) 
*1928-32 Complex Presentiment: Half-Figure in a
Yellow Shirt 
*1932-34 Running Man 
*1933 Self Portrait