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Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect, and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an importan…
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Born 16 December 1885 · Died 31 May 1953 · Q310320
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Artnet news: Vladimir Tatlin: Project of the Monument for the Third International Soviet Congress
Died 1953-05-31.
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In Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery
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Was heavily criticized for his allegedly anti-communist stance and lost his job, but was not repressed
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Taught in Kyiv where one of his students was Joseph Karakis
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(long before the birth of constructivism), also called "the last futurist exhibition", apparently over the 'suprematist' works Malevich exhibited there
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Resettled to Moscow, where he lived with his uncle and began his art career as an icon painter
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And young Vladimir had to interrupt his studies at the Kharkov Arts School and left for Odessa where he became a merchant marine cadet
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His father remarried and moved to Kharkov
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Born 1885-12-16.
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