Alexander Rodchenko
1891-1956

The founder of Constructivism – Russian design – and the first revolutionary photographer was born in St Petersburg to a working-class family, who moved to Kazan after the death of his father in 1909. In 1910, Rodchenko began studies under Nicolai Fechin and Georgii Medvedev at the Kazan Art School, where he met Varvara Stepanova, herself a leading avant garde artist, whom he later married.

After 1914, he continued his artistic training at the Stroganov Institute in Moscow, where he created his first abstract drawings, influenced by the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich. The following year, he participated in ‘The Store’ exhibition organized by Vladimir Tatlin. >> Read more

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