Kasimir Malevich

The Non-Objective World

Bauhausbücher 11

Kasimir Malevich’s treatise on Suprematism was included in the Bauhausbücher series in 1927, as was Piet Mondrian’s reflections on Russian Constructivism in 1925 (New Design, Bauhausbücher 5). Like Mondrian, who was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Malevich nevertheless has a close connection to the ideas of the school in terms of content. This volume, the eleventh, remains the only book publication in Germany to be produced during the life of the Russian avant-garde artist, and it laid the foundation for his late work: to wrest the mask of life from the true face of art.

The series is published with the generous support of the Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung.

Kasimir Malevich’s treatise on Suprematism was included in the Bauhausbücher series in 1927, as was Piet Mondrian’s reflections on Russian Constructivism in 1925 (New Design, Bauhausbücher 5). Like Mondrian, who was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Malevich nevertheless has a close connection to the ideas of the school in terms of content. This volume, the eleventh, remains the only book publication in Germany to be produced during the life of the Russian avant-garde artist, and it laid the foundation for his late work: to wrest the mask of life from the true face of art.

The series is published with the generous support of the Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung.

Author(s): Kasimir Malevich

Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy (original series), Lars Müller (English edition) in collaboration with Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung

Design: László Moholy-Nagy (original German edition)

18 × 23 cm, 7 × 9 in

102 pages, 92 illustrations

hardback

2021, 978-3-03778-664-2, English
CHF 45.00

Kasimir Malevich

Kasimir Malevich (1879–1935) was the first of fourteen children, although only nine of the children survived into adulthood. His family moved often and he spent most of his childhood in the villages of Ukraine amidst sugar-beet plantations, far from centers of culture. He delighted in peasant embroidery, and in decorated walls and stoves. Malevich studied drawing in Kiev from 1895 to 1896. In 1904 he moved to Moscow where he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the studio of Fedor Rerberg. In 1911 he participated in the second exhibition of the group Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of Youth) in St. Petersburg, together with Vladimir Tatlin and, in 1912, the group held its third exhibition, which included works by Aleksandra Ekster, Tatlin and others. In 1914 Malevich exhibited his works in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris together with Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Delaunay, Aleksandra Ekster and Vadim Meller, among others. Malevich traveled to Germany in 1927. He visited the Bauhaus in Dessau and was able to arrange the publication of his essay “The Non-objective World,” which was then published as the eleventh volume in the Bauhausbücher series. Today, Malevich is known as one of the most important artists and theorists of the so-called Russian avant-garde.

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