Kazimir Malevich was born February 26, 1878, near Kiev. 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.
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.
In 1915, Malevich introduced his non-objective, geometric Suprematist paintings
and by 1919, he began to explore the three-dimensional applications of Suprematism
in architectural models. That same year he began teaching at the Vitebsk Popular
Art School where he eventually became the director. Between 1919 and 1920,
he was given a solo show at the Sixteenth State Exhibition in Moscow, which
focused on Suprematism and other non-objective styles.
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.
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.
