El Lissitzky

Born in Russia in 1890, El Lissitzky was an artist, architect, photographer, and designer. He played an active role in producing exhibitions and propaganda for the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century, and was a key figure of the Russian Avant Garde whose works contributed to movements in his home country as well as abroad, such as Suprematism, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus. Lissitzky was the most important artist to embrace and promote Suprematism, the movement founded by his mentor, the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich. Suprematism focused on basic geometric forms, circles, squares, lines and rectangles, present in a limited range of colors, and refers to art based on, in Malevich’s words,... more.