Strzeminski was an art theoretician, painter, designer of "functional" prints, pioneer of the Constructivist avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, creator of the theory of Unism. Born 1893, Minsk in Belarus. He first studied engineering in St Petersburg and in World War I he was severely wounded, losing an arm and a leg. After the war he was in Moscow studying art and met Malevich and Tatlin. In 1919 he began working at the Department of Fine Arts (IZO) of the People's Educational Commissariat in Minsk; he also became a member of the Moscow Governing Council for Art and the Artistic Industry. In 1919-1920 he worked with the Government Department of Education in Smolensk. In 1927, a solo exhibition of Strzeminski's work was organized in Warsaw. That same year the artist presented his work at the Machine Age Exhibition in New York. He became Poland's best known art theoretician and abstract artist. His works hang in various public collections world-wide