What is Kazimir Malevich?
{{Infobox artist | name = Kazimir Malevich | image = Self-Portrait (1908 or 1910-1911).jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Self-Portrait, 1912 <br/>The strong colours suggest the <br/>influence of [[Matisse]] and [[Fauvism]]. | birth_name = Kazimir Severinovich Malevich | birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|2|23|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Kyiv Governorate]] of [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|5|15|1878|2|23|df=y}} | death_place = [[Leningrad]], [[Soviet Union]] | nationality = [[Russian Empire]], [[Soviet Union]] | field = [[Painting]] | training = [[Moscow]] School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture | movement = [[Suprematism]] | works = ''Black Square'', 1915; ''White on White'', 1919 }} [[File:Head of a Peasant Girl.jpg|thumb|right|230px|''Head of a peasant girl'' by Malevich, 1912/13, is abstract and cubist]] [[File:Cow and Fiddle.jpg|thumb|220px|right|''Cow and fiddle'' Malevich, 1913. Influence of [[Braque]] and [[cubism]].]] [[File:Malevich.black-square.jpg|thumb|220px|right|''Black Square'', 1915, Oil on Canvas, State Russian Museum, [[St Petersburg]]. One of the early suprematist works; [[geometry|geometrical]] and [[abstract art|abstract]]]] [[File:Suprematist Composition - Kazimir Malevich.jpg|thumb|220px|right|This is the painting which sold for $60 million: ''Suprematist Composition (blue rectangle over the red beam)'' Malevich, 1916.]] '''Kazimir Malevich''' <ref>{{lang-ru|Казимир Северинович Малевич}}, {{lang-pl|Kazimierz Malewicz}}, {{lang-uk|Казимир Северинович Малевич}}, {{lang-de|Kasimir Malewitsch}}</ref> ([[Kyiv]], 23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]]<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Kazimir_Severinovich_Malevich.aspx Malevich, Kasimir — A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art]</ref><ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Malevich.html Casimir Malevich — The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition]</ref> [[Painting|painter]] and [[art]] [[theory|theoretician]]. He was born in [[Ukraine]] of ethni