Vladimir Tatlin Biography (1885–1953)

Painter and designer, born in Moscow, Russia. He studied at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts, and was greatly influenced by Picasso's work in Paris in 1913. He founded Russian Constructivism, a movement at first approved by the Soviet authorities, and was commissioned to design the extraordinary spiral ironwork and rotating-glass ‘Monument to the Third International’ which, had it been built, would have been 1300 ft tall.

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