El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky was a Russian painter, typographer, architect and designer.

El Lissitzky was born Eleazar Markovich Lisitskii in Vitebsk in 1890. From 1909 until 1914 Lissitzky studied architecture in Darmstadt. In 1919 Lissitzky became a professor at the art school in Vitebsk, where he met Marc Chagall and Kasimir Malevich. At that time Lissitzky turned to the Suprematist theory of art and the "UNOWIS" group, beginning to work on a series of abstract paintings he called "Proun" ["For the New Art2].

Between 1921 and 1925 Lissitzky worked in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland but became a professor at the Moscow Art Academy in 1921. He founded the international journal "Vesc" in 1922 and devoted himself increasingly to typography and exhibition design. Between 1923 and 1925 Lissitzky designed the "Wolkenbügel" project [office blocks for Moscow, some with splayed legs straddling streets].

In 1925 Lissitzky returned to Moscow and taught at the post-Revolutionary art school Vkhutemas. Between 1926 and 1934 Lissitzky designed several exhibitions. El Lissitzky worked on the journal "The USSR in Architecture", for which Lissitzky and his wife, Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers, designed a great many issues. Lissitzky was a Russian avant-garde artist who did not limit himself to developing a form of abstract painting but rather extended the new functionalism to photography, book design, architecture and urban planning. His enormous versatility enabled El Lissitzky to forge links between the Russian Constructivists and Neo-Plasticism (De Stijl), the Bauhaus and Dada. As a painter and architect, Lissitzky was both personally and artistically close to the painter and architectural model-maker Kasimir Malevich.

El Lissitzky died in Moscow in 1941.

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Four Arithmetic Actions 1928
Beat All The Scattered 1920

Beat All The Scattered 1920

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Basic Calculus 1928

Basic Calculus 1928

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Black Anxious 1920

Black Anxious 1920

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Composition

Composition

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Announcer 1923

Announcer 1923

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Catalog Cover 1923

Catalog Cover 1923

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Building In Moscow 1929

Building In Moscow 1929

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Cover Of Broom 1923

Cover Of Broom 1923

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New Man 1923

New Man 1923

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Proun

Proun

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Wendingen 1921

Wendingen 1921

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Proun 43

Proun 43

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Untitled

Untitled

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Proun 30 T

Proun 30 T

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Proun 1922

Proun 1922

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Proun 30 1920

Proun 30 1920

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Proun 19D 1922

Proun 19D 1922

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Reminiscence Of Ravenna 1914
Proun 8

Proun 8

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There Is Over 1920

There Is Over 1920

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Flying Sun 1916

Flying Sun 1916

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Proun 4 B

Proun 4 B

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Proun 1 A Bridge I 1919

Proun 1 A Bridge I 1919

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Proun 5 A 1919

Proun 5 A 1919

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Proun 1 C 1919

Proun 1 C 1919

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Tatlin At Work

Tatlin At Work

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Proun G7 1923

Proun G7 1923

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Proun 3 A

Proun 3 A

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Proun 99 1924

Proun 99 1924

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Here Are Two Squares 1920

Here Are Two Squares 1920

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Proun 23 No 6 1919

Proun 23 No 6 1919

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Lenin Tribune 1920

Lenin Tribune 1920

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Proun 1923

Proun 1923

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Printing Industries 1927

Printing Industries 1927

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