Vladimir Tatlin

Painter

Birthday December 28, 1885

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Russia

DEATH DATE May 31, 1953 (67)

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About

Russian painter and architect who was an important figure in the Russian avant-garde art movement during the 1920s. He released his most popular design for The Monument to the Third International in 1919.

Before Fame

He started working as an icon painter in Moscow and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

Trivia

He was also regarded as a progenitor of Russian post-Revolutionary Constructivist art.

Family Life

He was born to a railway engineer and a poet in Moscow.

Associated With

Naum Gabo was often compared to him as a constructivist artist.