# Kazimir Malevich

> He painted a black square on a white canvas in 1915 and called it the future. Kazimir Malevich broke painting down to pure geometry — no objects, no illusions, just form freed from the world — and built Suprematism into one of the most uncompromising ideas modern art ever produced.

*Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Born:** 1879-02-11
- **Died:** 1935-05-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Kiev in 1879 to a Polish family, Malevich absorbed Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism through reproductions and Russian collectors before finding his own path. In 1915, working in a Cubo-Futurist mode, he developed Suprematism: pure geometric abstraction on monochromatic grounds. His Black Square, shown at the Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in Petrograd that year, marked the break. He taught in Vitebsk from 1918, founded the UNOVIS collective in 1919, and in 1927 took his work to Warsaw and Berlin — the only time he left Russia. By 1930, arrested briefly by the OGPU and squeezed by Stalin's cultural clampdown, he returned to figuration under the weight of Socialist Realism. Diagnosed with cancer in 1933 and denied exit for treatment, he kept painting until his death in 1935 at fifty-six.

## Fame
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