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Kazimir Malevich

1879 - 1935

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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February [O.S. 11 February] 1879 – 15 May 1935) was an avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality. Born in Kiev, modern-day Ukraine, to an ethnic Polish family, Malevich was active primarily in Russia and became a leading artist of the Russian avant-garde. His work has been also associated with the Ukrainian avant-garde, and he is a central figure in the history of modern art in Central and Eastern Europe more broadly. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2024). Kazimir Malevich is the 62nd most popular painter (down from 61st in 2024), the 13th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Painter.

Kazimir Malevich is most famous for the painting "Black Square" which is a painting of a black square on a white background.

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Among painters, Kazimir Malevich ranks 62 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Antoine Watteau, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Diego Rivera. After him are Jean-François Millet, Piero della Francesca, J. M. W. Turner, Andrea Mantegna, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Théodore Géricault.

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Among people born in 1879, Kazimir Malevich ranks 6. Before him are Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Owen Willans Richardson, and Paul Klee. After him are Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Max von Laue, Margaret Sanger, and Emiliano Zapata. Among people deceased in 1935, Kazimir Malevich ranks 1. After him are Józef Piłsudski, Arthur Henderson, John Macleod, Fernando Pessoa, Alfred Dreyfus, T. E. Lawrence, Paul Signac, Victor Grignard, Emmy Noether, Alban Berg, and Auguste Escoffier.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Kazimir Malevich ranks 13 out of 1,365. Before him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978). After him are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Hafsa Sultan (1479), and Joseph Conrad (1857).

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Among PAINTERS In Ukraine

Among painters born in Ukraine, Kazimir Malevich ranks 1. After him are Ilya Repin (1844), Sonia Delaunay (1885), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Maria Prymachenko (1908), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), Cassandre (1901), and Anna Bilińska (1854).

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