Naum Gabo (1890-1977)

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Today, in 1890 - was born Naum Gabo /Naum Borisovich (Nehemiah Berkovich) Pevsner /(05.08, 1890, Bryansk - 23/08/1977, Waterbury, Connecticut), a Russian and an American painter, sculptor and architect, art theorist, one of the leaders of the world's artistic avant-garde . Belonged to constructivism, became one of the pioneers of kinetic art.

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was close cubists. In 1920 he published (together with Pevzner and Klutsiusom) in a poster "revolutionary manifesto" - one of the first manifesto of constructivism. At the end of 1922 settled in Berlin. In the years 1932-35 he lived in Paris, one of the organizers of avant-garde association «Abstration-Creation». In 1935 he settled in London. In 1936 he married an Englishwoman, Miriam Israels. In 1937 - one of the publishers of the magazine «Circle: International Survey of Constructive Arts». From 1946 he lived in the U.S., in 1952, took American citizenship. International recognition was in 1950-60-ies. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1965), Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art, London (1967), Honorary Knight of the Order of the British Empire (1971).