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Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. 1890-1941 Automated thanks to @botfrens.bsky.social and @andreitr.bsky.social

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 1h

VESHCH = Gegestand = Objet (Object) 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

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 5h

Troublemaker (Zankstifter) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Troublemaker (Zankstifter)

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 21h

Untitled 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

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Illustration for Jewish folk tale 'The Goat' www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration for Jewish folk tale 'The Goat'

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Part of the Mechanical Setting (Teil der Schaumachinerie) 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... www.moma.org/collection/works/88308

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924) www.moma.org/collection/works/14470

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Composition www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/com…

Composition

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Untitled from Proun www.moma.org/collection/works/86775

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Broom, vol. 4, no. 3 and vol. 5, no. 4 www.moma.org/collection/works/13852

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The New Man (Neuer) 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) www.moma.org/collection/works/88312

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yingl tsingl khvat (The Mischievous Boy) www.moma.org/collection/works/16278

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Illustration to Aggadah www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to Aggadah

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

5. Globetrotter (in Time) www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lissit…

Purchased 1976

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Printing industries www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/pri…

Printing industries

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Announcer (Ansager) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Announcer (Ansager)

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kultur un bildung. Organ fun der idisher apteylung b dem tsentraln bildungs - Kamisariat, nos. 2-3 (25-26) (Culture and Education: Organ for the Yiddish Division of the Central Komisariat for Education) www.moma.org/collection/works/12132

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Proun www.moma.org/collection/works/65155

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cover from Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh (About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions) www.moma.org/collection/works/409782

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Globetrotter (In Time) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Globetrotter (In Time)

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Proun 19D www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/pro…

Proun 19D

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Illustration to 'Suprematic tale about two squares' www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'Suprematic tale about two squares'

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound) www.moma.org/collection/works/14447

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cover for 'Good!' by Vladimir Mayyakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/cov…

Cover for 'Good!' by Vladimir Mayyakovsky

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Illustration to 'Chad Gadya' www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'Chad Gadya'

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cover from Komitet po bor'be s bezrabotitsei (Committee to Combat Unemployment) www.moma.org/collection/works/11077

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tatlin at Work www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/tat…

Tatlin at Work

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lenin Tribune www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/len…

Lenin Tribune

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Central Park of Culture and Leisure Sparrow Hills www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/cen…

Central Park of Culture and Leisure Sparrow Hills

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Proun G7 www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/pro…

Proun G7

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Der milner, di milnerin, un di milshtayner (The Miller, His Wife, and Their Millstones) www.moma.org/collection/works/16156

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. Part of the Show Machinery www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lissit…

Purchased 1976

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 4 www.moma.org/collection/works/91379

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gravediggers (Totengräber) 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) www.moma.org/collection/works/88580

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/48943

Gift of Shirley C. Burden and David H. McAlpin, by exchange

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2 www.moma.org/collection/works/26504

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Untitled from Proun www.moma.org/collection/works/86778

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Proun 2 C from Proun www.moma.org/collection/works/165517

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

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Iron in clouds', for Strastnoy Boulevard www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/iro…

Iron in clouds', for Strastnoy Boulevard

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 2 www.moma.org/collection/works/91378

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cover for 'Good!' by Vladimir Mayyakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/cov…

Cover for 'Good!' by Vladimir Mayyakovsky

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cover design for Russland: Neues Bauen in der Welt www.moma.org/collection/works/215306

Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Elizabeth Lorenz by exchange and gift of David A. Dechman in honor of Robert B. Menschel

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elfandel (The Elephant's Child) www.moma.org/collection/works/16159

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

6. Sportsmen www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lissit…

Purchased 1976

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Broom, vol. 4, no. 3 www.moma.org/collection/works/91210

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Basic Calculus www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/bas…

Basic Calculus

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El Lissitzky @ellissitzky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/ill…

Illustration to 'For the voice' by Vladimir Mayakovsky