El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was an artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements, and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th-century graphic design.
Studium
1909 studied architectural engineering at Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany.
1941 student of engineering and architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute [Rizhskii politekhnicheskii institut]
1918 diploma with the degree of engineer-architect.
Gruppenausstellungen
1928 Soviet Pavilion at the International Press Exhibition, Cologne
1929 the Soviet Room at the Film and Photo Exhibition, Stuttgart
1930 the Soviet Pavilion at the International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden
1930 the Soviet section at the International Fur Trade Exhibition, Leipzig
1931 the Gorky Park of Culture and Rest, Moscow
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El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was an artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements, and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th-century graphic design.
Education
1909 studied architectural engineering at Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany.
1941 student of engineering and architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute [Rizhskii politekhnicheskii institut]
1918 diploma with the degree of engineer-architect.
Group exhibitions
1928 Soviet Pavilion at the International Press Exhibition, Cologne
1929 the Soviet Room at the Film and Photo Exhibition, Stuttgart
1930 the Soviet Pavilion at the International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden
1930 the Soviet section at the International Fur Trade Exhibition, Leipzig
1931 the Gorky Park of Culture and Rest, Moscow
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