Artist: El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941)
Nationality: Russian
Movement: Suprematism
Media: Painting, Design, Architecture
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (15)
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El Lissitzky Abstraction in Black and White Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Proun 3A, El Lissitzky (Soviet Union, 1890 - 1941) , circa 1920, Oil on canvas
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Runner in the City, ca. 1926 El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890-1941)Gelatin silver print; 13.1 x 12.8
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Amerika, El Lissitzky (Soviet Union, 1890 - 1941) , 1930, Printed material
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Amerika, El Lissitzky (Soviet Union, 1890 - 1941) , 1930, Printed material
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Mayakowsky, Ivanov Razumnik  (Author), 1922, Printed material
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Mayakowsky, Ivanov Razumnik  (Author), 1922, Printed material
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Of Two Squares, Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876 - 1956)  (Author), 1922, Printed material
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Of Two Squares, Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876 - 1956)  (Author), 1922, Printed material
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Zapiski Poeta, Ilya Lvovich Selvinsky (1899 - 1968)  (Author), 1928, Printed material
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Zapiski Poeta, Ilya Lvovich Selvinsky (1899 - 1968)  (Author), 1928, Printed material
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The Theater Unchained, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Tairoff (Russia, 1885 - 1950)  (Author), 1923, Printed material
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The Theater Unchained, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Tairoff (Russia, 1885 - 1950)  (Author), 1923, Printed material
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For the Voice, Vladimir Maiakovskii (1893 - 1930) , 1923, Printed material
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For the Voice, Vladimir Maiakovskii (1893 - 1930) , 1923, Printed material

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (15)
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Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona: El Lissitzky
With the title El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet, 1930-1941, this exhibition brings together Lissitzky’s multimedia works, with examples ranging from 1920 (when Lissitzky started designing the Abstract Cabinet) to 1941 (when he died in Mosc...
Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona: Last Week! El Lissitzky

With the title El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet, 1930-1941, this exhibition brings together Lissitzky’s multimedia works, with examples ranging from 1920 (when Lissitzky started designing the Abstract Cabinet) to 1941 (when he died in M...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Out of the Box: 20th-Century Print Portfolios
Eleven complete print portfolios from the permanent collection provide visitors with a rare opportunity to see the creative statement of each featured artist in its ...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Mondrian Painting Acquired from the Original Owners
While many paintings by Mondrian have been damaged by overly aggressive conservation treatment, Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red is in impeccable condition. For decades the design of Mondrian’s works was considered the most critical a...
Museum of Modern Art: The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910–1934
The Rothschild gift joins over 400 works from the Russian avant-garde period already in the Museum’s collections of painting and sculpture, drawings, photography, film, archi...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Avant Garde Graphics 1918-1934
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see posters, prints, book designs and political and commercial ephemera, together with original layouts and photomontages, produced by some of the most important artists working at that time. Bringing toget...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Vision and Reality - Conceptions of the 20th Century
Louisianas story of the 20th century falls into chapters linking contemporary and classical modern art. Its point of departure is the great 20th-century avant-garde movements: Russian Constructiv...
Haus der Kunst: !Avant-Gardes!

For those interested in art history, however, it long remained difficult to get a clear picture of the development of the Czech, Slovak, Hungarian or Polish avant-garde. Their isolation, resulting from national traditions and international tension...
Pushkin Museum at Arbat: Earth: Death-Birth Work by Angel Orensanz
The exhibition consists of a host of strongly poetic sculpture pieces that fly over the three spaces, while hige projections give context to those sculptures and arresting drawings in which Orensanz capture the drama of the Earth as grave and cra...
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia
After founding Futurism in 1909, F. T. Marinetti’s ambition was to establish an international Futurist movement that would develop his own group’s activities, achievements and interests. Futurist ideas were familiar to Russian artists through tra...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Treasure Hunt: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper
According to Carnegie Museum of Art's Associate Curator of Fine Arts Linda Batis, Treasure Hunt not only showcases important acquisitions, but also reveals the extent of the museum's collection of works on paper. We collect to overcome weaknes...
International Center of Photography: The Open Book: Photographic Publications 1878 to the Present
The Open Book chronicles the art of the photographic book in the twentieth century. This is the •rst museum exhibition to present these publications on their own merits, rather than as a supplement to the main attraction: the photographic print....
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interes...
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College: Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde
The official style, known as Socialist Realism, emphasized narrative, didactic subjects and classical composition. The Ministry of Culture of the USSR proclaimed that the truth and historical concreteness of the artistic depiction of reality mus...
Cleveland Museum of Art: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
The finest impressions by Rembrandt (1606–1669), one of the most experimental and greatest printmakers, are now exceedingly rare, so that it is important to take advantage when an opportunity appears. A beautiful impression of The ...

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