A member of the Knave of Diamonds group and a participant in the 1912 Donkey's Tail exhibition, he was once arrested for distributing banned literature.  
When Marc Chagall became director of the Vitebsk School of Art in 1918, he invited this man to teach under him; but shortly thereafter, during a brief Chagall absence, he took over the school and dismissed him. A member of the Knave of Diamonds group and a participant in the 1912 Donkey's Tail exhibition, he was once arrested for distributing banned literature.  For 10 points, who was this artist of Yellow Parallelogram on White and Suprematist Composition: White on White?
When Marc Chagall became director of the Vitebsk School of Art in 1918, he invited this man to teach under him; but shortly thereafter, during a brief Chagall absence, he took over the school and dismissed him.
Kasimir Malevich