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Kazimir Malevich's first steps in painting
His father did not support his son's interest in painting, but his mother liked his hobby.
She sided with her son when, at the age of 17, he decided to enroll in the Kiev Drawing School of Nikolai Ivanovich Murashko.
However, he studied there for only a year: soon the family moved to Kursk.
My father got a job as a secretary in the Railway Administration.
Some of my father's new colleagues were interested in art.
They organized a small art circle, which included two professional artists.
To earn money for art education in Moscow, Malevich got a job as a draftsman in the same department.
In 1899 (according to some sources in 1901), a double holiday occurred in the Malevich family: two brothers, Kazimir and Mieczyslaw, got married It is interesting that they chose the daughters of a Kursk doctor as their wives — two sisters Kazimira and Maria Zgleits.
Kazimir and Kazimira were married on January 27, 1902 in the Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Kursk.
Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Kursk
In 1901, their first child, son Anatoly, was born.
The boy died at the age of 15 from typhus.
In 1905, a daughter, Galina, was born.
Three years later, in 1902, the Malevich family suffered a misfortune — the head of the family, Severin Antonovich, died of a heart attack.
In 1904, leaving his wife and children in Kursk, Malevich moved to Moscow.
The wife did not share her husband's creative plans, considered creativity a frivolous occupation.
There was a split in the family.
Malevich's first attempt to achieve success in Moscow was not crowned with success.
On August 5, 1905, he applied for admission to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but was refused.
In the following years, he will send his documents to the school several more times and receive a refusal each time.
Kazimir did not want to return to his wife and children in Kursk.
He rented an inexpensive room in an art commune in Lefortovo, where he lived for six months.
When the money ran out, in the spring of 1906, Kazimir returned to Kursk and continued to serve in the Railway Administration.
Malevich's mother, feeling a lack of money, decided to go to Moscow to work.
In 1907, Ludwig Alexandrovna got a job as a canteen manager in Moscow.
After working for several months in a new place, she rented a 5 room apartment and sent a letter to her daughter in law Kazimira in Kursk, inviting her to move with the whole family.
Soon, Ludwig Alexandrovna herself rented a dining room on Tverskaya Street and began offering dinners in it.
In 1908, during the Christmas holidays, the dining room was robbed.
The Malevich family was forced to describe and sell the property, and then move to cheaper furnished rooms in Bryusov Lane.
Quarrels between the spouses became more frequent, and, in the end, Kazimira left her husband and took the children.
She moved to the village of Meshcherskoye and got a job as a paramedic in a psychiatric hospital.
As you know, there she fell in love with a doctor and, leaving the children to an employee, left Meshchersky with him.
In Naprudny Lane, Ludviga Alexandrovna rented a square and opened her own dining room.
Her business brought the family a good income.
When Malevich came to Meshcherskoye to pick up his children, he found that they were living with the caretaker Mikhail Rafalovich.
Here he met the daughter of the caretaker Sofia Mikhailovna Rafalovich, and in 1909 they were married.
Malevich loved his wife very much, as she loved him.
Sofia supported his desire to engage in creativity.
She took care of her husband in every possible way, took on household problems and brought the bulk of the family's earnings.
Kazimir Severinovich established good relations with her relatives.
And the Rafalovich family dacha in the village of Nemchinovka became a favorite place of solitude and recreation for Malevich in life.
When his mother's dining room began to bring in a good income, Malevich had the time and opportunity to study art.
From 1906 to 1910, Kazimir Severinovich took private lessons from the famous art teacher Fyodor Ivanovich Rerberg, who was interested in the impressionist style and the work of Paul Cezanne.
Rerberg was respected in artistic circles.
His students participated in exhibitions of the Moscow Association of Artists, at one of which in 1907 the first exhibition of Malevich's impressionist works took place.
In the studio of Rerberg, Malevich met artists Vasily Kandinsky, David Burlyuk, Mikhail Larionov and Ivan Klyun.
Since that time, the vector of Kazimir Severinovich's creativity has shifted towards the avant garde.
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