El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941)

Timeline

1890: Born: Pochinok, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
1909–1914: Studied architecture in Darmstadt
1918: appointed Commissioner of Artistic Affairs for Vitebsk, Belarus
1919: invited by Marc Chagall to teach painting at the newly formed People's Art School, Vitebsk, Belarus
1920: Malevich and El Lissitsky co-founded 'Molposnovis' (short-livedâ€”proto-suprematist association artists)
1890–1921: lived and studied in the city of Vitebsk,Belarus
1921: Professor at the Moscow Art Academy, Moscow, Russia
moved to Berlin to become the Russian cultural ambassador to Weimar Germany
1922: Founded the international journal 'Vesc'
1921–1925: Worked in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
Designed the 'Wolkenbegel' project [office blocks for Moscow, some with splayed legs straddling streets]
Returned to Moscow and taught at the post-Revolutionary art school Vkhutemas
1923–1925: El Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers in Moscow
1927: married Sophie Kuppers
taught interior design, metalwork, and architecture at VKhUTEMAS (State Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops) in Moscow
1941: Died: Moscow, Russia

2008: El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (solo)
2007: DISSONANZ UND HARMONIE - Galerie Stolz Berlin, Berlin (solo)
2006: El Lissitzky - Sieg über die Sonne - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen (solo)
2006: El Lissitzky - Futurist Portfolios - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (solo)
2003: Constructs for a Brave New World: El Lissitzky’s Proun and Victory over the Sun - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (solo)
2001: El Lissitzky - 2 Quadrate - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (solo)
2000: El Lissitzky (1890-1941) Photographien - Galerie Berinson, Berlin (solo)
1999: El Lissitzky - Más allá de la abstracción - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona (solo)
1995: El Lissitzky - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (solo)
1976: El Lissitzky - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (solo)

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