36 Facts About Kasimir Malevich

Kasimir Malevich is considered to be part of the Ukrainian avant-garde that was shaped by Ukrainian-born artists who worked first in Ukraine and later over a geographical span between Europe and America.

Early on, Kasimir Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism, and after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism.

Kasimir Malevich held several prominent teaching positions and received a solo show at the Sixteenth State Exhibition in Moscow in 1919.

Kasimir Malevich's recognition spread to the West with solo exhibitions in Warsaw and Berlin in 1927.

Kasimir Malevich soon lost his teaching position, artworks and manuscripts were confiscated, and he was banned from making art.

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Kasimir Malevich was celebrated posthumously in major exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which has a large collection of his work.

Kazimir Kasimir Malevich was born Kazimierz Malewicz to a Polish family, who settled near Kiev in Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire during the partitions of Poland.

Kasimir Malevich's family moved often and he spent most of his childhood in the villages of modern-day Ukraine, amidst sugar-beet plantations, far from centers of culture.

Kasimir Malevich delighted in peasant embroidery, and in decorated walls and stoves.

Kasimir Malevich studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1904 to 1910 and in the studio of Fedor Rerberg in Moscow.

Kasimir Malevich described himself as painting in a "Cubo-Futurist" style in 1912.

In 1914, Kasimir Malevich exhibited his works in the Salon des Independants in Paris together with Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Delaunay, Aleksandra Ekster, and Vadim Meller, among others.

Kasimir Malevich conceived the advertisement and design of the perfume bottle with craquelure of an iceberg and a polar bear on the top, which lasted through the mid-1920s.

In 1915, Kasimir Malevich laid down the foundations of Suprematism when he published his manifesto, From Cubism to Suprematism.

Kasimir Malevich thought it so important an event in his creation that for a whole week he was unable to eat, drink or sleep.

In 1918, Kasimir Malevich decorated a play, Mystery-Bouffe, by Vladimir Mayakovskiy produced by Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Kasimir Malevich was interested in aerial photography and aviation, which led him to abstractions inspired by or derived from aerial landscapes.

Some Ukrainian authors argue that Kasimir Malevich's Suprematism is rooted in the traditional Ukrainian culture.

Kasimir Malevich taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in Belarus alongside Marc Chagall, the Leningrad Academy of Arts, the Kiev Art Institute, and the House of the Arts in Leningrad .

Kasimir Malevich wrote the book The World as Non-Objectivity, which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959.

In 1927, Kasimir Malevich traveled to Warsaw where he was given a hero's welcome.

Kasimir Malevich held his first foreign exhibit in the Hotel Polonia Palace.

Kasimir Malevich arranged to leave most of the paintings behind when he returned to the Soviet Union.

Kasimir Malevich responded that art can advance and develop for art's sake alone, saying that "art does not need us, and it never did".

When Kasimir Malevich died of cancer at the age of fifty-seven, in Leningrad on 15 May 1935, his friends and disciples buried his ashes in a grave marked with a black square.

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On his deathbed, Kasimir Malevich had been exhibited with the Black Square above him, and mourners at his funeral rally were permitted to wave a banner bearing a black square.

Kasimir Malevich had asked to be buried under an oak tree on the outskirts of Nemchinovka, a place to which he felt a special bond.

Kasimir Malevich's ashes were sent to Nemchinovka, and buried in a field near his dacha.

For example, Kasimir Malevich used two layers of colour for the red spot—the lower black and the upper red.

Kasimir Malevich's family was one of the millions of Poles who lived within the Russian Empire following the Partitions of Poland.

Kazimir Kasimir Malevich was born near Kiev on lands that had previously been part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of parents who were ethnic Poles.

In 1989, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam held the West's first large-scale Kasimir Malevich retrospective, including the paintings they owned and works from the collection of Russian art critic Nikolai Khardzhiev.

Kasimir Malevich's works are held in several major art museums, including the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and in New York, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

Kasimir Malevich's life inspires many references featuring events and the paintings as players.

The smuggling of Kasimir Malevich paintings out of Russia is a key to the plot line of writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller Red Square.

Kasimir Malevich's work is featured prominently in the Lars von Trier film, Melancholia.