orig. Natan Borisovich Pevzner
born Jan. 18, 1886, Oryol, Russia
died April 12, 1962, Paris, France
Russian-born French sculptor and painter.
After travels to Paris and Oslo, he returned to become a professor at Moscow's school of fine arts. He helped form the Suprematist group, and in 1920 he and his brother, Naum Gabo , issued the Realist Manifesto of Constructivism . He settled in Paris in 1923. He used zinc, brass, copper, and celluloid for his early sculptures; later he relied mainly on parallel arrays of bronze wire soldered together to form plates, which he joined to form intricate shapes.