Adopted name of Naum Neemia Pevsnerm,
1890-1977. US abstract sculptor, born in
Russia. One of the leading exponents of
Constructivism, he left the USSR in 1922 for
Germany and taught at the Bauhaus in Berlin
(a key centre of modern design). He lived in
Paris and England in the 1930s, then settled
in the USA in 1946. He was one of the first
artists to make kinetic (moving) sculpture
and often used transparent coloured plastics.