Lazar Markovich Khidekel - Artist Info

About Lazar Markovich Khidekel

Name variants

Lazar Markovic Chidekel, Markovic Lasar Khikedel
  • Biography

    Lazar Markovich Khidekel (born Vitebsk 1904 – Leningrad 1986) was an artist, designer, visionary architect and theoretician, who is noted for realizing the abstract, avant-garde Suprematist movement through architecture.

    In 1918 at the age of 14, Khidekel was selected by Marc Chagall to study at the Vitebsk school of art, where he first met Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. Khidekel became one of the founders of the group UNOVIS - Affirmers of New Art led by Malevich and one of a few of Malevich's students, along with Ilya Chashnik and Nikolai Suetin, who deeply embraced Suprematist style and philosophy, and constituted the nucleus of genuine followers who soon become into their master's partners and assistants.

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