short biography

Kasimir Malewitsch (Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, b. 1878 in Kiew/Ukraine, d. 1935 in Leningrad/Russia) was a pioneer of Constructivism and founder of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He showed his abstract painting 'The Black Square on White', which is considered a landmark of modernist painting, at the Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in Petrograd in the year 1915.

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collection/s

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Centre Pompidou Paris HISCOX London Hamburger Kunsthalle Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation, Wien Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Moscow Museum of Modern Art Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum Brandhorst, München Museum Ludwig Köln Museum für Kunst und Geschichte, Genf National Art Museum of Ukraine Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg / RUS ° Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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galleries

Galerie Gmurzynska, New York Gmurzynska - St. Moritz (temporarily closed) Gmurzynska, Zürich Leonard Hutton Galleries
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  • 18. Apr 20. Aug
    After Impressionism National Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg / RUS °
  • 30. Nov 28. Feb 2001
    Kasimir Malewitsch State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg / RUS °
  • 02. Jul 29. Jul 2007
    Art concret Espace de l´Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux