Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect (1890–1941)
El Lissitzky was a Soviet artist and designer of the early 20th century who worked across multiple creative disciplines including painting, architecture, photography, and graphic design. His innovative work in these fields made him an influential figure in modern art and design, though his career was cut short when he died in 1941.
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Born in Windsor, Ontario. Raised like Detroit, Michigan. Sounds like Brazil. Long live Oscar Niemeyer! <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/El+Lissitzky">Read more on Last.fm</a>
El Lissitzky (Russian: Эль Лиси́цкий, born Lazar Markovich Lissitzky Russian: Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, listen; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1890 – 30 December 1941) was a Russian and Soviet artist, active as a painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker, photographer, and architect. He was an important figure of the avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union.
Lissitzky began his career illustrating Yiddish children's books in an effort to promote Jewish culture. He started teaching at the age of 15, maintaining his teaching career for most of his life. Over the years, he taught in a variety of positions, schools, and artistic media, spreading and exchanging ideas. He took this ethic with him when he worked with Malevich in heading the suprematist art group UNOVIS, when he developed a variant suprematist series of his own, Proun, and further still in 1921, when he moved to Weimar Republic. In his remaining years he brought significant innovation and change to typography, exhibition design, photomontage, and book design, producing critically respected works and winning international acclaim for his exhibition design. This continued until his deathbed, where in 1941 he produced one of his last works – a Soviet propaganda poster rallying the people to construct more tanks for the fight against Nazi Germany.
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