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El Lissitzky
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Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. 1890-1941
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Part of the Show Machinery (Teil der Schaumaschinerie) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/64475
Part of the Show Machinery (Teil der Schaumaschinerie)
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/illustration-to-for-the-voice-by-vladimir-mayakovsky-1920-3
Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Untitled https://www.artic.edu/artworks/119454/
A painter, architect, and designer as well as a photographer, El Lissitzky believed that avant-garde art could transform daily life. One of the key figures to integrate artistic developments in Russia with those in Western Europe, he began experimenting with photography seriously in Germany in 1923. Lissitzky was fascinated by the possibilities of photograms, multiple exposures, and what he called fotopis—loosely translatable as “photo-writing”—and he eventually abandoned painting to focus on combined photographic and architectural projects. Photograms (images made by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing them to light, rather than with a camera) were taken up in Dada and Constructivist circles in different countries between 1919 and 1923. The primitive technology, which dispensed with lenses, permitted a merger of touch and sight that Lissitzky thematized in this picture by having himself (at left) and fellow painter and designer Vilmos Huszár appear to be the twinned pupil of a ghostly eyeball—at once pictured and the embodied agent of picturing. This photogram incorporates circular images of El Lissitzky (with pipe) and another artist, Vilmos Huszár. It is printed on gelatin silver paper, the standard black-and-white pho-tographic paper of the 20th century. The absence of an intermediary baryta layer (a distinctive preparatory layer containing white pigment typically present in a gelatin silver print) gives it a very matte surface, while the gray tonality is most likely due to underdevelopment. Mary L. and Leigh B. Block Collection
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Announcer (Ansager) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/62894
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November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Proun 2 D from Proun http://www.moma.org/collection/works/165518
Vincent d'Aquila and Harry Soviak Bequest, by exchange, Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund, Orentreich Family Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment, Mrs. Sash A. Spencer, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Peter H. Friedland, Maud I. Welles, Deborah Wye Endowment Fund, Riva Castlemen Endowment Fund, Lily Auchincloss Fund, Monroe Wheeler Fund, and John M. Shapiro
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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1. Part of the Show Machinery http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lissitzky-1-part-of-the-show-machinery-p07138
Purchased 1976
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Study for cover design for Amerika: Neues Bauen in der Welt http://www.moma.org/collection/works/215307
Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, by exchange
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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SSSR stroit sotsializm = UssR baut den Sozialismus = Urss construit lr socialisme (USSR Builds the Socialism) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/199101/
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Illustration for Jewish folk tale 'The Goat' https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/illustration-for-jewish-folk-tale-the-goat-1919
Illustration for Jewish folk tale 'The Goat'
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Austellung, Köln 1928 (Catalogue of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Pressa Exhibition, Cologne 1928) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/14428
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Yingl tsingl khvat (The Mischievous Boy) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/16278
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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7. Troublemaker http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lissitzky-7-troublemaker-p07144
Purchased 1976
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/illustration-to-for-the-voice-by-vladimir-mayakovsky-1920-9
Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Illustration by El Lissitzky to 'The hen who wanted a comb' https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/illustration-by-el-lissitzky-to-the-hen-who-wanted-a-comb-1919
Illustration by El Lissitzky to 'The hen who wanted a comb'
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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VESHCH = Gegestand = Objet (Object) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/199114/
In 1922 designer El Lissitzky and writer Ilya Ehrenburg founded an international design magazine featuring articles in Russian, German, and French. The goal of the journal was to publicize their recent experiences with Constructivism and disseminate their ideas about the role of art in revolutionary society. The articles highlight the important dialogue occurring between designers in the Soviet Union and Western Europe at this time, including those working out of institutions such as the Bauhaus. Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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There is over https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/there-is-over-1920
There is over
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/14447
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Plate from Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh (About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/409778
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Do not read, grab bars, paper, pieces of wood, fold, paint, build https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/do-not-read-grab-bars-paper-pieces-of-wood-fold-paint-build-1920
Do not read, grab bars, paper, pieces of wood, fold, paint, build
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/14470
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Ptitsa bezymiannaia. Izbrannye stikhi 1917-1921 (Bird without a Name: Collected verse 1917-1921) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/14543
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Untitled from Proun http://www.moma.org/collection/works/86777
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November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Old Man - Head 2 Paces Back (Alter - Kopf 2 Schritt Hinter) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/64482
Old Man - Head 2 Paces Back (Alter - Kopf 2 Schritt Hinter)
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Proun https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/proun-1922
Proun
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Elfandel (The Elephant's Child) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/16159
Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM