Naum Gabo — sculptor with roots in the Russian Empire
Naum Gabo (born Naum Pevsner) was a Russian-born British sculptor who co-founded Constructivism — the revolutionary Soviet art movement that defined the visual language of modernism. His transparent, kinetic sculptures using industrial materials pioneered an entirely new approach to three-dimensional art.
Tracing the roots — Bryansk
Born in Bryansk (Russian Empire) in 1890, Gabo trained in Munich and developed his ideas in Russia during the revolutionary period before emigrating — first to Berlin, then Paris, then London, finally settling in the United States. His Realistic Manifesto (1920), written with his brother Antoine Pevsner, is one of the defining documents of modern art.
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Bryansk. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.