Malevich short biography

A ground breaking artist and art theorist who took ideas from his age and developed and refined them through his own work, Kazimir Malevich was a leading figure in the Suprematist abstract art movement.

Born in 1878 to a Polish Catholic family, Malevich lived through, and at times suffered, the turbulence of Russian politics prior to his death in 1935.

Much is made of Malevich's humble beginnings, and rightly so. His story is one of natural talent and unique insight raising the individual above their circumstances.

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Malevich's parents were Polish and essentially refugees, having fled Poland after the failed January Uprising against the Tsarist army in 1863. At the time of his birth they were living in Kiev, however his father worked among the sugar factories and at times in railway construction.

As a result the family moved around the Ukraine, sometimes living i