Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik (1902, Lucyn,

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, Latvia - 1929,

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) was a

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artist, a pupil of Kazimir Malevich and a founding member of the

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school.

Biography

Chashnik was born to a Jewish family in 1902, Lucyn,

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, Latvia. He started studying in Yehuda Pen's art school at

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when he was just eleven years old. He became a student of Marc Chagall. By 1918, he moved to Moscow to work in an art workshop directed by Kazimir Malevich. He returned after Malevich accepted a senior teaching position at ''Vitebsk School of Drawing and Painting.'' 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." He painted, was proficient in metalwork, and designed ceramics produced at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (then known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory). Chasnik, along with Nikolai Suetin, was recruited by the factory during his time as a UNOVIS member. He died in 1929 in

, at the age of 27. The

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held an exhibition dedicated to his works in 1981.

Works

File:Ilya g chashnik painting1.jpg, Suprematist composition File:Ilya Chashnik Suprematist Composition 1920c..jpg, ''Suprematist Composition'', 1920,

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References

External links

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Literature

*''Чашник Илья Григорьевич (1902-1929), ленинградский художник, ученик К. Малевича. Первая монография о мастере.'' (publ. 2002), 1902 births 1929 deaths Abstract painters People from Ludza {{russia-painter-stub