Malevich’s panels decorated several buildings in Vitebsk, including the White Barracks (above), where the Committee for the Struggle against Unemployment had its workshops (December 1919). This and other projects – both realized or just in conception stage – involved the city as a surface for Suprematism, and was all part of Malevich professorship at the Vitebsk Popular Art Institute [Vitebskoe Narodnoe Khudozhestvennoe Uchilishche]. The school was established by Marc Chagall, recruiting artists such as Ivan Puni, El Lissitzky, V. Ermalaeva, and K. Boguslavskaya, and Kazimir Malevich. It operated between 1918-1922.
