Kobro, who was born into a multicultural family in Moscow on January 26, 1898, is remembered as a leading innovator of early 20th-century Central European abstract art.
Her utilitarian and geometric sculptures explored the relationship between expression and the infinitude of space, according to the Google Doodle page.
Initially inspired by Russian constructivism, she developed her artistic style under the influence of emerging attitudes in the Polish avant-garde, in which artists believed art could be incorporated into everyday life through mass production, the Google Doodle profile of her said.
Kobro created her first sculpture in 1920—an amalgamation of metal, wood, glass and cork entitled Tos 75 - Struktura (Tos 75 Structure).
Her most famous works include the 1925-1933 sculpture series Kompozycja Przestrzenna (Spatial Compositions) and the 1931 philosophy book Composition of Space: Calculations of Space-Time Rhythm, co-written with her husband, Władysław Strzemiński.
A spatial composition by Katarzyna Kobro on show in 2008 at the Museum of Art in Łódź, central Poland. Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Michałowski
Kobro died in Łódź, central Poland, on February 21, 1951.
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Source: google.com/doodles, rmf24.pl