Antoine Pevsner was a Belarusian

Belarusians

Belarusians ; are an East Slavic ethnic group who populate the majority of the Republic of Belarus. Introduced to the world as a new state in the early 1990s, the Republic of Belarus brought with it the notion of a re-emerging Belarusian ethnicity, drawn upon the lines of the Old Belarusian...

 and Russian

Russians

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 sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.-Early life:...

. Both Antoine and Naum are considered pioneers of twentieth-century sculpture.

Pevsner was born in Klimavichy, Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

. Among the originators of and having coined the term, Constructivism

Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...

, and pioneers of Kinetic Art

Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.-Kinetic sculpture:...

, they discovered a new use for metals and welding and made a new marriage of art and mathematics.

"Art must be inspiration controlled by mathematics. I have a need for peace, symphony, orchestration."- Antoine Pevsner

Pevsner's studio was on the outskirts of Paris

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 and housed his sculptures. He was one of the first to use the blowtorch in sculpture, welding copper rods onto sculptural forms.

Along with his brother, Naum, he issued the Realist Manifesto in 1920. He died in Paris

Paris

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, age 76.

Works: Projection dymamique; Caracas, Venezuela (1951)