Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian avant-garde painter and art theorist who lived from 1879 to 1935 and founded Suprematism, a radical non-objective painting movement he introduced in 1915 with works such as Black Square and White on White. His innovations pioneered the development of abstract painting in the twentieth century and shaped Eastern and Central European avant-garde art before he faced suppression under Stalin's Socialist Realism policy. He received major posthumous recognition through retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.