Naum Gabo
Russia (1890—1977)After studying art, engineering, philosophy, medicine and science, Gabo moved from Munich to Italy and France, where he visited his brother Pevsner and met Archipenko. After his early Cubist work, he started to move closer to Constructivism but soon directed his interests toward pure art and distanced himself from political propaganda. In 1920, he wrote the Realistic Manifesto with his brother. In 1922 he moved to Berlin, where he worked with Moholy-Nagy and came into contact with the Bauhaus. In 1932 he moved to Paris, where he joined the Abstraction-Création group. From 1936 to 1946 he lived in England, bringing Constructivism there, but then left for the US, where he was commissioned to create several works, some of which were never completed.
