Painter, graphic artist, stage designer, art theoretician, designer and teacher. Reshaped 20th century art. Born in Ukraine to a family of Polish immigrants. Initially he studied at the Kiev School of Drawing (1895–1896). In the mid 1900s he studied at the MSPSA in Moscow and the Stroganov School. He attended classes at the private studio of F.I.Roerberg. Become a close friend of M.F.Larionov, he mastered contemporary European art trends and participated in the activities of the St.Petersburg Union of Youth society (1911-1914). He became fascinated with Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, the painting of Cezanne and Matisse and Neo-Primitivism, in 1913 he turns to alogism. In 1915 he created his Black Suprematist Square showcased at the "0.10" exhibition in Petrograd. The artist’s first personal exhibition was organised in 1919-1920. Between 1919-1922 he worked in Vitebsk where he established the UNOVIS school. In 1923 he headed the Museum of Art Culture GINHUK (closed in 1926). In 1927 Malevich made a trip to Poland and Germany with his work and he left his work there hoping to return. In Russia he spent three weeks under arrest. His last personal exhibition in Russia was organised by the Tretyakov Gallery in 1928. At this show he demonstrated the persistence of his road in art to Suprematism through the various art movements of the 20th century beginning with Impressionism. K.S.Malevich is the recognized leader of the Russian avant-garde, the founder and theoretician of non-objective art. Suprematism is the name he gave to the trend he created. He created the stage for the Cubo-Futurist opera entitled The Victory over the Sun (1913), and gave birth to the idea of non-figurative art. At the "0.10" exhibition in 1915 he showcased his Black Suprematist Square for the first time, it was the work that unfurled Suprematism. Later Malevich went through white and coloured Suprematist periods. Following the Revolution Malevich taught a great deal and reformed artistic education using new principles. In Vitebsk he supervised the UNOVIS School which realized his ideas in its teaching. In the mid 1920's he worked on the prototypes for Suprematist architecture, at the planites and architectronics. Dreaming of new universal architecture, Malevich developed the "suprematic order". During the last decade of his life the artist returned to figurative art based on Suprematist principles of transforming the landscape, figures and faces into perfect suprematist planes. The artist wrote theoretical works explaining his artistic innovations ("From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism. The New Painting Realism", 1915; "Suprematism. The World as Non-Figurative"). In his article entitled "Painting and the Problems of Architecture" in 1928 he wrote while formulating his understanding of living construction tasks in art: "All other life forms are depicted themselves as evil and blood clots. No leader, economist or politician has managed to achieve constantly designing elements like artist have". His ideas produced an abundant artistic harvest and particularly in design and architecture of the 20th century in Western Europe. During the Soviet period his art was declared anti-popularist, a sample of "bourgeois formalism". Today Malevich’s are once again important for contemporary art. In 1988 a large exhibition of Malevich’s works was organised by the Tretyakov Gallery. It helped to display the scale of his creative work.