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1Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik (1902 - 1929, Leningrad) was a Suprematist artist, student of Kazimir Malevich and founding member of the UNOVIS school.
Chashnik was born to a Jewish family in 1902 in Lucyn, Russian Empire, currently Ludza, Latvia. He began studying at the Yehuda Pen art school in Vitebsk when he was only eleven years old. Read the full biography

1Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik (1902 - 1929, Leningrad) was a Suprematist artist, student of Kazimir Malevich and founding member of the UNOVIS school.
Chashnik was born to a Jewish family in 1902 in Lucyn, Russian Empire, currently Ludza, Latvia. He began studying at the Yehuda Pen art school in Vitebsk when he was only eleven years old. He later became a student of Marc Chagall. In 1918 he moved to Moscow to work in a workshop headed by Kazimir Malevich. Afterwards, he returned to Vitebsk when Malevich accepted a senior teaching position at the Vitebsk School of Drawing and Painting.
Chashnik was considered a very versatile artist. Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh describes him as "famous for his inexhaustible inventiveness and ability to apply Suprematist principles to virtually all art forms, including oil painting." He was skilled in painting, metalworking, and designing ceramics produced at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (then known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory). Chasnik, along with Nikolai Suetin, was recruited by the factory during his time as a member of UNOVIS.
He died in 1929 in Leningrad, aged just 27. In 1981 the University of Texas at Austin held an exhibition dedicated to his works.