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Arkhipov, Sergeï or Sergei or Sergey  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Born 1897, in Kozliv.

Painter. Figures, nudes.

In the 1920s, Sergei Arkhipov was influenced by Suprematism, and then by Constructivism. In 1938, he became a member of the Union of Artists. His works are housed in the most important Russian museums....

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Belin, Christian  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1938, in Cambrai.

Painter.

The main influences on the abstract painter Christian Belin are to be sought in the Neo-Plasticism of Mondrian, the Elementarism of Van Doesburg and in the suprematist works of Malevich. His explorations, based on the expressive power of paint in its pure state, are characterised by flat patches of colour and the abandoning of contrasting values in favour of the interaction of neighbouring colours. The colours are used in their raw form in generally simple geometric shapes. He frequently leaves virgin lines, or 'blanks', thus allowing colour the maximum freedom of space. His work is similar to the 'Hard Edge' movement made famous by Elsworth Kelly and Kenneth Nolland....

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Chashnik, Ilya Grigorevich  

Latvian, 20th century, male.

Born 25 June 1902, in Iucin or Vitebsk; died 4 March 1929, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).

Painter, watercolourist, designer, architect.

Suprematism.

Unovis Group.

Ilya Chashnik spent his childhood in Vitebsk. From 1917-1919 he studied with Yuri (or Yehuda) Pen, then in ...

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Chervinko, Ivan  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Painter.

Constructivism, Suprematism.

Little is known of Ivan Chervinko's life, and only a few of his works are known to exist. He was a pupil of Kazimir Malevich and worked in his studio in Vitebsk.

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Hidekel, Lezar M.  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Born 1904.

Painter.

Suprematism.

Lezar Hidekel was a pupil of Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk and attended the Unovis school. In 1922 he left for Petrograd (now St Petersburg) with Malevich to work at GINKhUK (the state institute of culture). At the same time, he studied at the institute of civil engineering until ...

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Horndash, Ulrich  

German, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1951, in Munich.

Painter, mixed media. Murals.

Horndash lives and works in Munich. He uses multiple forms of expression and combines cultural references from the Suprematism of Russian painter Kasimir Malevich to the Constructivism of Russian painter, sculptor and graphic artist Eliezer Markowich Lissitzky. Notably, he produces monumental murals on glass, painted from the block, and inscribes signs, scripts and geometric forms onto the vast surface....

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Klucis, Gustav Gustavovich  

Latvian, 20th century, male.

Born 4 January 1895 , in Rŭjiena, Latvia; died 26 February 1938 , in Moscow

Painter, collage artist, photomontage artist, poster artist, lithographer, sculptor.

Constructivism, Vhutemas, Productivism, Suprematism.

Unovis, October.

Gustav Klucis studied at the City Art School in Riga (1913-1915), then at the school of design under the aegis of the Imperial Society for the Fostering of Art (1915-1917) in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). He completed his training at Vasily Meshkov’s school of design and painting, Il’ya Mashkov’s studio in the State Free Art Studio (Svoma) in Moscow, and the higher artistic and technical workshops (Vkhutemas) under the direction of Kazimir Malevich and Antoine Pevsner. An associate member of the INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture) productivist group in Moscow from 1921 to 1925, he taught courses at the Vkhutemas from 1924 to 1930. He was a founder member of the October group in 1928....

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Klyun, Ivan  

Ukrainian, 20th century, male.

Born 1870 or 1873, in Bolchie or Bolchye Gorki; died 1942, in Moscow.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, sculptor.

Suprematism.

Brought up in Warsaw, where he studied at the school of design for the promotion of the arts, Ivan Klyun left Poland and moved to Moscow in 1910 where he attended the studio of Ilya Mashkov, V. Fisher and F. Rerberg. In 1913, by now in St Petersburg, he joined a futurist group, the ...

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Kobro, Katarzyna  

Latvian, 20th century, female.

Active in Poland.

Born 1898, in Riga; died 1951, in Lódz.

Sculptor.

Constructivism, Suprematism.

Groups: Unovis, Blok, Praesens, R.A. (Revolutionary Artists), Abstraction-Création.

Katarzyna Kobro studied sculpture in Moscow between 1917 and 1920, first at the school of painting, sculpture and design in Moscow then at the state free art workshop (Svomas). She met the painter Strzeminsky in Moscow and married him in ...

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Kogan, Anna  

Russian, 20th century, female.

Born 1902; died 1974.

Painter.

Suprematism.

Unovis group.

Born Hannah A. Nathanson, she was the pupil of Malevich at the school of art in Vitbsk from 1919 and 1922 and a member of the Unovis group from 1918 to 1923 in Petrograd (now St Petersburg), participating in many of their exhibitions, including ...

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Kogan, Nina Osipovna  

Russian, 20th century, female.

Born 1887, in Vitebsk; died 1942.

Painter.

Suprematism.

London, 30 June 1987: Suprematist Composition (c. 1922-1923, pencil, 12½ × 8½ ins/32 × 21.5 cm) GBP 2,200

London, 29 March 1988: Composition (watercolour/paper, 20 × 13 ins/50.5 × 33 cm) ...

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Kudriashev, Ivan A.  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Born 1896; died 1972.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, decorative designer.

Suprematism.

Association of Easel Painters.

Ivan A. Kudriashev studied at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow from 1913 to 1917, then with Malevich at the SVOMAS workshops for free art in Moscow in ...

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Lolo  

Cuban, 20th century, female.

Born 1911, in Pinar del Rio.

Painter, collage artist, sculptor.

Lolo was a follower of the geometrically-inclined abstract art movement deriving from the work of Sophie Taüber-Arp and the Suprematism of Malevich.

After becoming heavily involved in trade union activities, Lolo was made cultural representative of the Republic of Cuba in Europe. In this position, in ...

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Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Born 23 February 1878, in the Kiev region; died 15 May 1935, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).

Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, printmaker, decorative artist, writer. Stage sets.

Symbolism, Cubo-Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, Non-Objectivity, Abstract Art.

Oslinyy Khvost (Donkey’s Tail), Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds), Soyuz Molodezhi (Union of Youth), INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture)...

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Popova, Liubov Sergueievna  

Russian, 20th century, female.

Born 1889, in Ivanovskoje; died 25 May 1924, in Moscow.

Painter (including gouache/mixed media), collage artist, designer, potter. Nudes, figures. Stage sets.

Suprematism, Constructivism.

Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds) group.

Liubov Sergueievna Popova came from a cultivated family. She studied in the studios of Stanislav Zhukovsky (...

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Rabichev, Féodor  

Russian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1956.

Painter, illustrator.

Feodor Rabichev studied at the academy of fine arts in Moscow and was the pupil of Anatoli Safokhin. He produces compositions in a Geometric Abstract, even Suprematist, style.

Paris, 1 June 1994: Composition (oil on canvas...

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Redko, Kliment Nikolaevich  

Ukrainian, 20th century, male.

Born 15 September 1897, in Chelm (now in Poland); died 1956, in Moscow.

Painter.

Suprematism.

Electro-organism Group.

Kliment Nikolaevich Redko studied icon painting in 1910 before studying at the School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St Petersburg for five years, in and around ...

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Rozanova, Ol’ga Vladimirovna  

Russian, 20th century, female.

Born 21 June 1886, in Malenki; died 8 November 1918, in Moscow.

Painter, collage artist, draughtswoman, engraver, poet.

Futurism, Suprematism.

Groups: Soiuz Molodezhi (Union of Youth), Supremus.

Ol’ga Vladimirovna Rozanova studied at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry in Moscow. She was one of the most active members of the St Petersburg avant-garde. In ...

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Suetin, Nikolai  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Born 25 October 1897, in Miatlevskaya (Kaluga); died 22 January 1954, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).

Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, potter, designer.

Suprematism.

Suetin did his military service in 1915 in Vitebsk and went on to study at the school of art in Vitebsk from 1918 to 1922, where he knew Ivan Puni (later known as Jean Pougny). He was part of the ...

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Udaltsova, Nadezhda Andreevna  

or Oudaltsovaor Oudaltzova Nadejda

Russian, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born 1866, in Orel; died 1961, in Moscow.

Painter (including gouache), collage artist.

Suprematism.

Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds) group.

Moving from the small village of Orel to Moscow in 1892, Nadezhda Andreevna Udaltsova was educated at a girl’s school until 1905. From 1905 to 1909, she attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture led by Ivan Dudin and Konstantin Yuon. Udaltsova studied with Vladimir Tatlin in Moscow before traveling to Paris, France. In 1913, she enrolled at Academie La Palette under Jean Metzinger, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Andre Segonzac. On her return from Paris to her hometown of Moscow in 1913–1914, she studied with Tatlin and Rogovin at their ‘Tower’ studio, where she created a large number of Rayonist compositions.

Her Cubist practice used multiple points of perception to express an alternative vision of reality, and that artistic exploration aided her understanding of the stylistic movement of Rayonism that Tatlin practiced. Rayonism expresses a vigor and movement through fragmented visual perception that Uldatsova used between ...