Born in El Lissitzky (22-11-1890)

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Born Lazar Markovich Lissitzky /alias El Lissitzky /22/11/1890 - 30/12/1941), the Soviet architect and artist-designer, graphic artist, illustrator, typographer, architect, photographer, theorist and architectural critic, one of the prominent representatives of Russian and Jewish avant-garde, one from the creators of a new kind of art - design. Together with Kazimir Malevich developed Suprematism.

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky born with. Pochinok Smolensk province (now the Smolensk region)

The first steps in art Lissitzky made under the leadership of the Vitebsk painter YM Peng (1903). After graduating from a technical school in Smolensk in 1909, studied at the architectural department of the Higher Technical School in Darmstadt, Germany (1909-14). In 1912 traveled to Paris in 1913, traveled to Italy.

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Returning to Russia after the First World War entered the Riga Polytechnic Institute, evacuated to Moscow, to confirm the certificate of the architect (got it in April 1918). He worked in architectural offices in Moscow (1915-16). In 1916 he participated in an ethnographic expedition investigated the monuments of Jewish antiquities on the banks of the Dnieper. After the 1917 revolution - an energetic leader of the national cultural revival, a participant and organizer of professional exhibitions of Jewish art.

Illustrated in 1917-23 and designed the book in Yiddish: "Prague legend" (Moscow, 1917), "Goat" (Kiev, 1919) and others; illustrate Lisitsky combine the style and folk kubofuturizma lubok. Worked in the Art section of the Moscow Board of Deputies, in his sketch was performed first flag-Russia Central Executive Committee (1918). In 1918, served in the Department of Fine Arts Narcompros.

In early 1919, after moving to Kiev, played an important role in many endeavors of the Kiev Kultur-league. In May 1919 he settled in Vitebsk, led architectural studio and workshop schedules printed in the National Art School, headed by Marc Chagall. Upon arrival Malevich in Vitebsk became a passionate supporter of Suprematism, in 1920 adopted the artistic name of "El Lissitzky. Active member of the "affirmative new art" (UNOVIS), Lissitzky took part in the decorative and festive decoration of the city, together with Malevich designed the commemorative celebrations of the Vitebsk of the Committee on the fight against unemployment (1919).

He was the author of panels and posters, combining the suprematic pointlessness and propaganda-oriented images ( "wedge red beat white", 1919, etc.). During the 1920 designed the "Almanac UNOVIS number 1", created the book "Suprematism tale about 2 squares" (published in Berlin, 1922), designed Figurin the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun ", thinking this performance as" electro-show with the performers -puppets (the folder with the lithographic Figurina published in Berlin in 1923).

Lissitzky in Vitebsk has invented and developed his own version of three-dimensional Suprematist compositions, called them "PROUNI" (approval of new projects). In 1919-20 wrote a large number of scenic PROUNI, some of which have been translated into graphic form; folder then PROUNI lithographs were published in Moscow (1921) and in Hannover (the so-called "Folder Kestner, 1923). PROUNI, according to the author, were synthesized by means of Suprematism and Constructivism, serving as "interchange station from painting to architecture." In the future, the whole biography Lisitsky they played the role of the design stage to create a wide range of design development: from PROUNI subsequently grew famous projects "horizontal skyscraper, theater layouts, arts and spatial installation projects of pavilions and exhibition interiors, new principles of photography and photomontage, poster, bookstore, furniture design.

At the end of 1920 the master moved to Moscow, he taught at the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops, attended the Institute of Artistic Culture.

The fall of 1921 he was posted to Berlin in order to establish contacts with leaders of arts and culture in western Europe has played a huge role in establishing the links between post-revolutionary Russian avant-garde and European innovators - in particular the Berlin Dadaists, the Netherlands by the "Style and the Bauhaus. Participated in the pan-European movement of Constructivism, by realizing its installation on the communicative role of design as an international language understood outside the forms of verbal communication. In 1922 he published together with IG Ehrenburg journal "thing" (in Russian, French, German). Actively collaborated in the publication of a number of artistic and architectural magazines: "Broome", Berlin, 1922; De Style ", Amsterdam, 1922;" G "(with Mies van der Rohe), Berlin, 1922-1923," Merz "(jointly Kurt Schwitters), Berlin, 1923-1924, "ABC" (with M. Stamov), Switzerland, 1925.

In 1923 in Berlin's book "Mayakovsky. To vote", where Lisitsky were first applied his methods of visual-spatial construction of the book. In 1922-23 in Hanover held solo exhibitions of the artist, in the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition them was designed "Hall PROUNI" (1923). In 1923, the master worked in the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague), read the reports about Russian art, came into the union "De Style. In 1924 he had a solo exhibition in Berlin in the same year exhibited in Vienna project mobile "platform oratory, going back to projects UNOVIS.

Aggravation of tuberculosis caused Lisitsky several months in a sanatorium in Switzerland (1924-25), where he worked on the articles on the arts, prepared jointly with K. Schwitters issue of Merz "(№ 8-9), has started to design a" horizontal skyscraper " , created a design registration for the firm "Pelican". In 1925 personal exhibition was held in Dresden. In June of that year he returned to Moscow, took the post of Professor of Higher Art (from 1926 - Vhuteine). Entry into the new Association of Architects (Asnova) has developed a number of architectural projects, none of which has not been implemented (projects of a textile mill, communal houses, libraries, reading rooms, yacht club, a complex publishing "The Truth", etc.).

In 1927 he married Sophia Kyuppers, German artist, moved to Moscow. In 1927-28 in the Landes-Museum Hannover project Lisitsky was decorated "Abstract Cabinet". In collaboration with Sun Meyerhold created a draft set the stage for the play "I want a child" S. Tretyakov (1929-30). During the 1920's. has written several articles and treatises, which was made by a theorist and propagandist of the new visual culture generated by the movement of art in 20 century, in 1930, published in German in Berlin, his book on contemporary Russian art (Russland. Architectur fur eine Weltrevolution).

Registration of All-Union Printing Exhibition in Moscow, designed and implemented Lisitsky in 1927, marked the birth of the Soviet Union itself a profession of the designer, the designer of exhibitions; Lissitzky emerged as the artistic director of a large group of authors, a synthetic piece of art with extensive use of technical and engineering achievements. The second half of 1920, he became the leading master of the Soviet exhibition design.

Among his works - projects-development of the Soviet pavilion at the International Exhibition of Printing Press in Cologne (1928), the International Exhibition of Hygiene in Dresden, the International Fur Exhibition in Leipzig (both 1930), the International Trade Exhibition in Belgrade (1940-1941, not held ). In 1935 he was appointed chief artist of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, worked on the Main Pavilion. In 1930 Lissitzky continued his work in the field of book and magazine design (albums "15 Years of the USSR", "15 Years of the Red Army," "Russia is building socialism", etc.), in 1932-1940 worked as a painter and decorator magazine USSR construction. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Lissitzky created a series of anti-fascist posters

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Interesting article from the magazine: KompyuArt
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Artist book El Lissitzky
EL Nemirovsky

"... The new work on a book not yet gone so far as to blow up now traditional form of the book. Despite the crises that book production is experiencing, along with other products, book glacier is growing every year. The book turned into a monumental work of art, it is not only delicate fingers caress a few bibliophiles, it grabbed hundreds of thousands of hands "
1. This statement extremely modern, yet it is taken from the article "Our Book", published in the pages of the Gutenberg Yearbook about 80 years ago. Its author, Lazarus (Eleazar) Markovich Lissitzky, or, as he usually signed his work, El Lissitzky, has had a tremendous influence on the art books of the twentieth century.

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