Kazimir Malevich — painter (suprematism) with roots in the Russian Empire
Kazimir Malevich was a Ukrainian-born Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist who founded Suprematism — one of the earliest and most radical movements in abstract art. His Black Square (1915) is one of the most important paintings in art history, and his influence on modern design, architecture, and visual culture is incalculable.
Tracing the roots — Kyiv (Ukraine)
Born in Kyiv (Russian Empire) in 1879 to Polish parents Seweryn Malewicz and Ludwiga Galynowska, Malevich spent his career in Moscow and St. Petersburg, at the centre of the Russian avant-garde explosion that briefly made Russia the most radical art culture on earth. His Suprematism — pure geometry, pure colour, pure abstraction — was a declaration that art had transcended representation entirely.
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Kyiv (Ukraine). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Under Suprematism I understand the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art."