"In one of his letters from Vitebsk to David Shterenberg in Moscow - a letter written in 1921, when the organization of the Erste russische Kunstausstellung (First Russian Art Exhibition, Berlin, 1922) was only beginning to be discussed - Malevich took pains to emphasize that he was an ideological worker in art. And that the Berlin exhibition would be of interest to him only if his "icons" - the Black Square, Chernyi krug (Black Circle), and Chernyi krest (Black Cross) - were exhibited. And exhibited only, moreover, under the rubric 'Suprematizm Rossiia'. 1913 (Suprematism: Russia, 1913). Nineteen thirteen?. ..Malevich, who was a genius at hypnosis, convinced not only everyone else but even himself that he had inaugurated Suprematism in 1913 - and not in any other year. His account of his own career is full of datings of works according not to the year in which they were produced but the year in which they were conceived."
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Vasilii Rakitin, in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 29
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Kazimir Malevich
1910 – 1911
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a painter, art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art, and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. He was also the founder of the art movement Suprematism.
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