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Kazimir
Malevich/Works and
biograpy
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Untitled
ca. 1916 |
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was born February 26,
1878, near Kiev, Ukraine. He studied at the Moscow Institute
of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1903. During
the early years of his career, he experimented with
various Modernist styles and participated in avant-garde
exhibitions, such as those of the Moscow Artists’
Association, which included Vasily Kandinsky and Mikhail
Larionov, and the Jack of Diamonds exhibition of 1910
in Moscow. Malevich showed his Primitivist paintings
of peasants at the exhibition Donkey’s Tail in
1912. After this exhibition, he broke with Larionov’s
group. In 1913, with composer Mikhail Matiushin and
writer Alexei Kruchenykh, Malevich drafted a manifesto
for the First Futurist Congress. That same year, he
designed the sets and costumes for the opera Victory
over the Sun by Matiushin and Kruchenykh. Malevich showed
at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1914.
At the 0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition in Petrograd
in 1915, Malevich introduced his non-objective, geometric
Suprematist paintings. In 1919, he began to explore
the three-dimensional applications of Suprematism in
architectural models. Following the Russian Revolution
in 1917, Malevich and other advanced artists were encouraged
by the Soviet government and attained prominent administrative
and teaching positions. Malevich began teaching at the
Vitebsk Popular Art School in 1919; he soon became its
director. In 1919–20, he was given a solo show
at the Sixteenth State Exhibition in Moscow, which focused
on Suprematism and other non-objective styles. Malevich
and his students at Vitebsk formed the Suprematist group
Unovis. From 1922 to 1927, he taught at the Institute
of Artistic Culture in Petrograd, and between 1924 and
1926 he worked primarily on architectural models with
his students. In 1927, Malevich traveled with an exhibition
of his paintings to Warsaw and also went to Berlin,
where his work was shown at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung.
In Germany, he met Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, Le Corbusier,
and Kurt Schwitters and visited the Bauhaus, where he
met Walter Gropius. The Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow
gave Malevich a solo exhibition in 1929. Because of
his connections with German artists, he was arrested
in 1930 and many of his manuscripts were destroyed.
In his final period, he painted in a representational
style. Malevich died May 15, 1935, in Leningrad.
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