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Kardinsky was a Jewish-French artist generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. He was born on 6 July1887 – 28 March 1985 and travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin before World War 1An early modernist, he was associated with several main artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.

During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern Europe and Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Belarus, becoming one of the country's most famous artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1923.