Ilya Chashnik
Soviet artist
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Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik (26 June 1902 – 4 March 1929) was a suprematist artist, a pupil of Kazimir Malevich and a founding member of the UNOVIS school.[1][2]
Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik | |
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| Born | June 26, 1902 |
| Died | March 4, 1929 (aged 26) |
| Education | UNOVIS school |
| Movement | suprematism |
Biography
Chashnik was born to a Jewish family in 1902, Lucyn, Russian Empire, currently Ludza, Latvia. He started studying in Yehuda Pen's art school at Vitebsk when he was just eleven years old.[3] He became a student of Marc Chagall.[3] By 1918, he moved to Moscow to work in an art workshop directed by Kazimir Malevich.[3] He returned after Malevich accepted a senior teaching position at Vitebsk School of Drawing and Painting.[3]
Chashnik was notably able in a variety of media. Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh describes him as "famous for his inexhaustible inventiveness and ability to apply Suprematist principles to virtually all forms of art, including easel painting."[4] He painted, was proficient in metalwork, and designed ceramics produced at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (then known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory).[4][5] Chasnik, along with Nikolai Suetin, was recruited by the factory during his time as a UNOVIS member.[6]
He died in 1929 in Leningrad, at the age of 27.
The University of Texas at Austin held an exhibition dedicated to his works in 1981.[7]
Works
Suprematist composition
Suprematist Composition, 1920, M.T. Abraham Foundation
