Katarzyna Kobro

Katarzyna Kobro was born on 26 January 1898 in Moscow, in what was then the Russian Empire, to a multicultural family. Her father, Nikolai Alexander Michael von Kobro, came from a family of Baltic Germans from present-day Latvia, and her mother, Evgenia Rozanov, was Russian. She was a member of the Moscow Union of Artists with Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, Lyubov Popova, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko, among others. In 1920, Kobro married Polish artist Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952). At the beginning of 1922, she fled to Poland and in 1924, obtained Polish citizenship. == Career ==

The couple established themselves in the small Polish town of Szczekociny and later relocated to Koluszki, where they worked as teachers. == Style ==

's Sala Neoplastyczna (Neoplastic Room) at the Museum of Art in Łódź featuring sculptures by Kobro. Kobro was one of the most progressive interwar avant-garde artists. Under the influence of Constructivism, she rejected the concepts of Aestheticism, individualism and subjectivism, and instead postulated the absolute objectivism of form. Her main aim was to build an abstract work of art, based on universal and objective rules discovered through experimentation and spatial analysis. Her sculpture conceptualized infinite space, which was to be seen as uniform and without focal or reference points, such as the origin of a coordinate system. Therefore, she strove to organize space in such a way that it would not be divided into space enclosed within form and excluded from it, but instead for the work to coexist with space and to allow space to penetrate it. == Legacy ==

Kobro's unique spatial compositions had a considerable impact on various modern artists, among others on the Belgian sculptor and painter Georges Vantongerloo whose sculptures evolved in the course of the 1920s and 1930 under the influence of Kobro's work. Her works have been exhibited in museums around the world including Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofia, Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet Malmö, and Whitechapel Gallery. On 12 December 2012, the International Astronomical Union named a crater located in the southern hemisphere of Mercury in honor of Kobro. Kobro's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou. On 26 January 2022, Google featured a Doodle to commemorate her 124th birthday. ==See also==