Representative work by El Lissitzky
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Artist

El Lissitzky

1890–1941 · Russian / Soviet

  • Riga Technical University
  • Technical University of Darmstadt

El Lissitzky transformed Suprematist ideas into graphic design, architecture, exhibition display and publishing. His Proun works—'projects for the affirmation of the new'—occupy a space between painting and architecture, while posters and books helped create the visual grammar of international Constructivism.

Graphic design; architecture; photography; print; painting

Major Works

  • 1919Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
  • 1920–21Proun 19D
  • 1924–25Proun 99
  • 1923Proun Room
  • 1924The Constructor (Self-Portrait)
  • 1922About Two Squares
  • 1919Had Gadya
  • 1929USSR Russische Ausstellung poster
  • 1927–28Cabinet of Abstraction
  • 1926Runner in the City

Interviews & Writing

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