Where can you see Kazimir Malevich in Amsterdam?

At the Stedelijk Museum: An Englishman in Moscow, The Woodcutter and Suprematist Painting: Eight Red Rectangles. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Kazimir Malevich's most famous work in Amsterdam?

An Englishman in Moscow, of 1914, at the Stedelijk Museum. A man in a top hat crowded with a fish, a candle, a sabre, a ladder and scraps of words, a picture meant to make no sense.

When and where was Kazimir Malevich born?

On 23 February 1879, at Kyiv, Russian Empire. Kazimir Malevich died on 15 May 1935, at Leningrad, Soviet Union, aged about 56.

What is Kazimir Malevich known for?

Founded Suprematism in 1915. Painted the Black Square, shown in Petrograd in 1915. The Stedelijk has the largest group of his work outside Russia. Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter, of Suprematism.

Painter, 1879 to 1935

Kazimir Malevich

In 1915 Malevich showed a black square on a white ground and declared painting free of the visible world. The Stedelijk can show how he got there, from his peasants and Cubist figures to the floating rectangles of Suprematism.

Born: 1879, Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died: 1935, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Movement: Suprematism
In Amsterdam: 3 works in 1 museum

Where to see Kazimir Malevich in Amsterdam

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Stedelijk Museum3 works

An Englishman in Moscow
1914
A man in a top hat crowded with a fish, a candle, a sabre, a ladder and scraps of words, a picture meant to make no sense.
The Woodcutter
1912
A peasant splitting logs, his body and the wood made of shining metallic cylinders.
Suprematist Painting: Eight Red Rectangles
1915
Eight red rectangles floating at an angle on a white ground, from the year he founded Suprematism.

The life of Kazimir Malevich

Malevich was born in Kyiv and worked in Moscow and St Petersburg, passing through Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism before arriving, in 1915, at Suprematism: pure geometric forms on a plain ground.

In 1927 he showed his work in Berlin and left much of it behind when he went home. Many of those pictures came to the Stedelijk, which has more of his work than any museum outside Russia.

What to know

Founded Suprematism in 1915
Painted the Black Square, shown in Petrograd in 1915
The Stedelijk has the largest group of his work outside Russia

Born: 23 February 1879, Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died: 15 May 1935, Leningrad, Soviet Union

Kazimir Malevich: common questions

Where can you see Kazimir Malevich in Amsterdam?: At the Stedelijk Museum: An Englishman in Moscow, The Woodcutter and Suprematist Painting: Eight Red Rectangles. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Kazimir Malevich's most famous work in Amsterdam?: An Englishman in Moscow, of 1914, at the Stedelijk Museum. A man in a top hat crowded with a fish, a candle, a sabre, a ladder and scraps of words, a picture meant to make no sense.
When and where was Kazimir Malevich born?: On 23 February 1879, at Kyiv, Russian Empire. Kazimir Malevich died on 15 May 1935, at Leningrad, Soviet Union, aged about 56.
What is Kazimir Malevich known for?: Founded Suprematism in 1915. Painted the Black Square, shown in Petrograd in 1915. The Stedelijk has the largest group of his work outside Russia. Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter, of Suprematism.