Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (Russian:Влади́мир Евгра́фович Та́тлин; December 28 [O.S. December 16] 1885 – May 31, 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. He is most famous for his design for The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, which he began in 1919.