El Lissitzky
(Russian, 1890–1941)
Biography
El Lissitzky was an avant-garde Russian artist and major figure in both Suprematism and Constructivism. Lissitzky’s politically fueled poster designs, photographs, and paintings melded formal abstraction with typography, as seen in his Proun series. “The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world,” he once mused. “It is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.” Born Lazar Markovich Lisitskii on November 23, 1890 to a Jewish family in the small village of Pochinok, Russia. Much of his childhood was spent in Vitebsk, where he studied art from a young age under Yehuda Pen, who also taught Marc Chagall. In 1909, Lissitzky moved to Germany to study architecture at the Technische Universität in Darmstadt. At the outbreak of World War I, he and other Russian emigres were forced back to Russia. After the 1917 Russian Revolution, Lissitzky became involved with the newly formed Soviet government group Inkhuk (Institute for Artistic Culture). His work for the institute included designing exhibitions for Constructivist shows and typographies for books by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Lissitzky died on December 30, 1941 in Moscow, Russia. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, among others.
El Lissitzky Artworks
El Lissitzky
Totengräber (from Figurinenmappe. Die..., 1923
Sale Date: March 29, 2011
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-(from-figurinenmappe.-die-plastische-gestaltung-der.jpg "Alter (Kopf zwei schritt Hinten) (from..., 1923")
El Lissitzky
Alter (Kopf zwei schritt Hinten) (from..., 1923
Sale Date: March 29, 2011
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.jpg "Plate 5 (from 1. Kestnermappe Proun), 1919–1923")
El Lissitzky
Plate 5 (from 1. Kestnermappe Proun), 1919–1923
Sale Date: March 29, 2011
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(bk-w/-1-work).jpg "Foto-Auge (Oeil et photo - Photo-eye)(bk w/ 1...")
El Lissitzky
Foto-Auge (Oeil et photo - Photo-eye)(bk w/ 1...
Sale Date: November 21, 2010
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.jpg "Die plastische Gestaltung der..., 1923")
.jpg "Untitled (design for a poster), 1920")
:-the-red-peak-beats-the-white.jpg "Project for a revolutionary poster,..., 1919–1920")
El Lissitzky
Project for a revolutionary poster,..., 1919–1920
Sale Date: September 22, 2010
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.jpg "Porträts (5 works), 1924")
.jpg "Sentinel (from Victory over the Sun), 1923")
.jpg "Plastic figures of the electro-mechanical..., 1923")
El Lissitzky
Plastic figures of the electro-mechanical..., 1923
Sale Date: November 2, 2009
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.jpg "Wendingen no. 11 (for front and back..., 1922–1923")
El Lissitzky
Wendingen no. 11 (for front and back..., 1922–1923
Sale Date: November 3, 2009
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.jpg "Suprematistische Erzählung von 2 Quadraten..., 1922")
El Lissitzky
Suprematistische Erzählung von 2 Quadraten..., 1922
Sale Date: June 11, 2009
Auction Closed
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