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    Markovich Lissitzky (Russian: Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, listen; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1890 – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Russian:...
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    krasnym bey belykh!) is a 1919 lithographic Bolshevik propaganda poster by El Lissitzky. In the poster, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who...
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    several artists—either directly associated with Suprematism such as El Lissitzky or working under the suprematist influence as did Rodchenko and Lyubov...
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    1917 and 1919 Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky created two variants of the book Had Gadya. Lissitzky's used Yiddish for the book verses, but introduced...
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    exchange of ideas between Moscow and Berlin, something reinforced by El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenburg's Soviet-German magazine Veshch-Gegenstand-Objet which...
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    Yudovin, and by El Lissitzky and Issachar Ber Ryback documented and photographed interiors of the synagogue. After the article by Lissitzky, interior murals...
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    Tribune by El Lissitzky (1920), a moving speaker's podium. During the Russian Civil War the UNOVIS group centered on Kasimir Malevich and Lissitzky designed...
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  • suprematist El Lissitzky – the words "Inspired by El Lissitzky" are noted on the cover. The back cover image is an adaptation of a graphic from Lissitzky's book...
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    Arksentevich Kolyada Alexander Kuprin Mikhail Larionov Aristarkh Lentulov El Lissitzky Kazimir Malevich Paul Mansouroff Ilya Mashkov Mikhail Matyushin Vadim...
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    his star students and colleagues, including notable Russian artists El Lissitzky, Lazar Khidekel, Nikolai Suetin, Ilia Chashnik, Vera Ermolaeva, Anna...
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    1925, though his group—Unovis, of the Vitebsk art college that included El Lissitzky—exhibited at Vkhutemas as early as 1921. While constructivism was ostensibly...
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    age of 56. His art and his writings influenced contemporaries such as El Lissitzky, Lyubov Popova and Alexander Rodchenko, as well as generations of later...
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    of the arena of the Monument to the Third International, posters of El Lissitzky, the dynamics of sport and the trajectory of figure skating of Russia's...
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  • was an International Review of Modern Art published in Berlin by El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenburg in 1922. It was a trilingual publication whose title...
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    designed by El Lissitzky, is likely the only extant building based on Lissitzky's blueprints. Located at 17, 1st Samotechny Lane, it is Lissitzky's sole tangible...
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    Bauhaus typographers such as Herbert Bayer and László Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky greatly influenced graphic design. They pioneered production techniques[citation...
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  • projects with her second husband, artist and designer El Lissitzky. She later wrote El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts (1967). Before moving to the Soviet...
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    was the influence of Constructivism, particularly of Vkhutemas and of El Lissitzky, who stayed in Berlin frequently during the early 1920s. Another element...
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  • Records. The cover artwork features a portion of The Constructor by El Lissitzky. All tracks are written by Robert Baker, Dean Dennis and Adi Newton Adapted...
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    Suprematism is almost exclusively associated with Malevich and his apprentice El Lissitzky. Red Square, 1915. Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg White Square (also...
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  • portfolio of prints by Jean Arp, Merz 8/9, 1924, was edited and typeset by El Lissitzky, Merz 14/15, 1925, was a typographical children's story entitled The...
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    photomontage. Parallel to the Germans, Russian Constructivist artists such as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and the husband-and-wife team of Gustav Klutsis...
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  • 22 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970) November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941) December 5 David Bomberg, English...
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    Boris Ignatovich, Semion Fridland, and George Petrusov. El Lissitzky and Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers designed the overall layout and cover arrangements...
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    Constructivist and Bauhaus movements. "Prounenraum (Proun Room) (1923), by El Lissitzky, is considered by many art historians to be the first time an artist...
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    the Mogilev Shul? — El Lissitzky, On the Mogilev Shul: Recollections (1924) "Jewish period" was very short in the art of El Lissitzky; on the contrary,...
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  • collective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivist artist El Lissitzky titled Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. Despite this echo of the Russian...
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    visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky. From 1919 to 1922 the school was shaped by the pedagogical and aesthetic...
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    by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In July 2001, Jen Lissitzky, the son of artist El Lissitzky, filed a restitution claim against the Beyeler Foundation...
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    manifesto. Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Liubov Popova, and others similarly renounced pure art in favor of serving...
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