Vladimir Tatlin
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 important artist in the constructivist movement.
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- Born in
- Moscow
- Educated at
- Penza Art School
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"The influence of my art is expressed in the movement of the Constructivists, of which I am the founder – Tatlin."
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1885
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