Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the constructivist movement.
Vladimir Tatlin as sailor, 1914-15
Tatlin, 1913, Female Model / Натурщица, oil on canvas
Tatlin 1913, scene design for the play 'A Life for the Tsar'
Tatlin, 1916, Counter-relief, sculpture of several materials
Tatlinʼs Tower, or the project for the Monument to the Third International (1919–20), was a design for a grand monumental building by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, that was never built. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd after the October Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Communist International.
Vladimir Tatlin and a model of his Monument to the Third International, Moscow, 1920.
Model of Tatlin's Tower in the courtyard of the Royal Academy, London.