KASIMIR MALEVITSCH
tea set

The Russian painter, architect and designer Kazimir Malevich is considered the founder of Suprematism. His teapot - a symbol of so-called revolutionary ceramics - is often referred to as an 'icon of modernity'. In its dynamic interplay of cylinder, sphere, square and rectangle, it is the epitome of so-called suprematism. It was precisely the natural color of the porcelain that the Suprematists associated with the idea of the "purity of man's creative life" as 'suprematist endless white'.

With his half cup, Malevich realizes the idea of thrift in art (the so-called 5th unit of measurement): a normal round vessel is cut in half and balanced by a vertically attached rectangle, the handle.