El Lissitzky 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.
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Works in Collection
111 works
"Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema" by Vladimir Mayakovsky
El Lissitzky
1927
"Pro dva kvadrata" by El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky
1920
Air de dance pour piano / pesnia pliaska palestinskikh ev...
El Lissitzky
1919
![Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTE3NSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=be8725df3f6b9f71)
Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinig...
El Lissitzky
1930
An Old Man, His Head Two Paces Behind (Alter) from Figuri...
El Lissitzky
1920–21, published 1923
Announcer (Ansager) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional...
El Lissitzky
1920–21, published 1923
Anxious Ones (Ängstliche) from Figurines: The Three-Dimen...
El Lissitzky
1920–21, published 1923
Arkhitektura VKhUTEMAS. Raboty arkhitekturnogo fakul'teta...
El Lissitzky
1927
Back cover from Proun
El Lissitzky
1920
Brochure for Schomir Publishing House
Marc Chagall
1918
Broom, vol. 4, no. 3
El Lissitzky
1923
Broom, vol. 5, no. 4
El Lissitzky
1923
Composition
El Lissitzky
1922
Cover from Komitet po bor'be s bezrabotitsei (Committee t...
El Lissitzky
1919
Cover from Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti...
El Lissitzky
1922
Cover study for America: The Development of Style in New ...
El Lissitzky
1929-30
Cover study for Russia: Reconstruction of Architecture in...
El Lissitzky
1929-30
Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound)
El Lissitzky
1923
Der milner, di milnerin, un di milshtayner (The Miller, H...
El Lissitzky
1919
Di hun vos hot gevolt hoben a kam (The Hen that Wanted a ...
El Lissitzky
1919
Dlia golosa (For the Voice)
El Lissitzky
1923
Dlia golosa (For the Voice)
El Lissitzky
1923
Elfandel (The Elephant's Child)
El Lissitzky
1922
Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 1
El Lissitzky
1922-1923
Exhibitions
44 exhibitionsMar 02, 1936 – Apr 19, 1936
Cubism and Abstract Art
113 artists · 1 curator
Apr 27, 1936 – Sep 02, 1936
Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators
100 artists · 1 curator
May 24, 1944 – Sep 17, 1944
Posters
37 artists · 1 curator
Jun 20, 1945 – Feb 13, 1946
The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
174 artists
Sep 21, 1948 – Dec 05, 1948
Collage
39 artists · 1 curator
May 10, 1949 – Jul 10, 1949
Master Prints from the Museum Collection
132 artists · 2 curators
Oct 05, 1949 – Dec 04, 1949
Modern Art in Your Life
164 artists · 1 curator
Jul 11, 1950 – Sep 05, 1950
Three Modern Styles
94 artists
Jun 23, 1953 – Oct 04, 1953
Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 19471953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
100 artists · 2 curators
Oct 19, 1954 – Feb 06, 1955
XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
260 artists
Dec 07, 1954 – Feb 01, 1955
Modern Masterprints of Europe
72 artists · 1 curator
Sep 29, 1960 – Dec 04, 1960
Visionary Architecture
17 artists · 1 curator
May 27, 1964 – Mar 23, 1965
Prints by Seventeen Artists
17 artists · 1 curator
Sep 07, 1964 – Nov 30, 1964
The Photographic Poster
27 artists · 1 curator
Jan 17, 1968 – Mar 04, 1968
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
55 artists · 1 curator
Jan 25, 1968 – Mar 10, 1968
Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 18791967
197 artists · 1 curator
Nov 27, 1968 – Feb 09, 1969
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
11 artists · 2 curators
Jul 28, 1971 – Nov 01, 1971
Ways of Looking
132 artists · 1 curator
Jun 27, 1972 – Oct 10, 1972
European Drawings from the Collection
24 artists · 1 curator
Oct 18, 1972 – Jan 07, 1973
Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
41 artists · 2 curators
Mar 07, 1973 – Jun 04, 1973
Works on Paper
58 artists
Jul 11, 1973 – Sep 11, 1973
Collage and the Photo-Image
40 artists · 5 curators
Oct 12, 1973 – Feb 02, 1974
Published in Germany, 1923
17 artists · 2 curators
Mar 21, 1975 – Jun 15, 1975
In the Twenties
51 artists · 1 curator
Feb 09, 1976 – May 09, 1976
Cubism and Its Affinities
45 artists · 1 curator
Mar 26, 1976 – May 19, 1976
Posters from the Collection
49 artists · 1 curator
Aug 20, 1976 – Nov 14, 1976
Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
66 artists · 1 curator
Aug 05, 1977 – Oct 31, 1977
The Graphic Revolution: 19151935
31 artists · 1 curator
Oct 12, 1978 – Jan 02, 1979
Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde, 19121930
29 artists · 1 curator
Nov 14, 1979 – Jan 22, 1980
Art of the Twenties
167 artists · 1 curator
Aug 20, 1981 – Oct 06, 1981
Words and Pictures
49 artists · 1 curator
Mar 01, 1982 – Mar 16, 1982
A Century of Modern Drawing, 18811981
59 artists · 1 curator
Oct 26, 1983 – Jan 03, 1984
The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
81 artists · 1 curator
May 17, 1984
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
99 artists · 2 curators
May 17, 1984
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings
61 artists · 2 curators
Oct 02, 1985 – Jan 07, 1986
Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 19101980
107 artists · 2 curators
Apr 26, 1986 – Sep 02, 1986
Sculptors' Drawings
41 artists · 1 curator
Jan 24, 1987 – Jun 14, 1987
Drawings Acquisitions
65 artists · 1 curator
Oct 24, 1987 – Mar 01, 1988
European Drawing Between the Wars
59 artists · 1 curator
Jun 06, 1988 – Sep 06, 1988
The Modern Poster
141 artists · 1 curator
Jun 23, 1988 – Aug 30, 1988
Deconstructivist Architecture
12 artists · 3 curators
Nov 03, 1988 – Feb 28, 1989
Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection
42 artists · 2 curators
Nov 17, 1988 – Mar 26, 1989
Abstractions
77 artists · 1 curator
Nov 24, 1988 – Jan 10, 1989
Recent Acquisitions
22 artists · 1 curator