El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky {{Audio|ru-El_Lissitzky.ogg|listen}} (?????? ???????? ????????, November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (??? ????????), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. He was one of the most important figures of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his friend and mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designed numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the former Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus, Constructivist, and De Stijl movements and experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th century graphic design.

Resources

Notes

• {{Book reference | Author=Lissitzky-Kuppers, Sophie | Title=El Lissitzky, life, letters, texts | Publisher=Thames and Hudson | Year=1980 | ID=ISBN 0500230900}}
• {{Web reference | title=formDefined | work=formDefined: one by one by one | URL=http://comm2.fsu.edu/programs/comm/interact/showcase/2004/PDF/KF_proposal.PDF | date=March 9 | year=2005}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Lissitzy, El | Title=El Lissitzky, 1890–1941: Architect Painter Photographer Typographer | Publisher=Municipal Van Abbemuseum | Year=1990 | ID=ISBN 9070149281}}
• {{Web reference | title=El Lissitzky in Weimar Germany| work=El Lissitzky in Weimar Germany by Anna Glazova | URL=http://spintongues.vladivostok.com/glazova27eng.htm | date=March 8 | year=2005}}
• {{Web reference | title=Monuments of the Future | work=Getty Institute - Monuments to the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky | URL=http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/lissitzky/index2.html | date=March 20 | year=2005}}

References

• {{Book reference | Author=Lissitzky-Kuppers, Sophie | Title=El Lissitzky, life, letters, texts | Publisher=Thames and Hudson | Year=1980 | ID=ISBN 0500230900}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Lissitzy, El | Title=El Lissitzky, 1890–1941: Architect Painter Photographer Typographer | Publisher=Municipal Van Abbemuseum | Year=19901 | ID=ISBN 9070149281}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Perloff, Nancy; Reed, Brian | Title=Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow | Publisher=Getty Research Institute | Year=2003 | ID=ISBN 089236677X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Mayakovsky, Vladimir; El Lissitzky | Title=For the Voice (Dlia golosa) | Publisher=The MIT Press | Year=2000 | ID=ISBN 0262133776}}

External links

• The Getty Research Institute - Monuments of the Future ^(Flash) or ^(HTML) - The Getty Center's home page for El Lissitzky - Biography, media, etc.
• El Lissitzky in Weimar Germany - A essay and biography on his life and work, focusing particularly on his time in Germany
• Ibiblio.org - Image collection of some of his most famous works
• MoMA - Flash-navigable exploration of USSR im bau and Dlia Golossa (click on "Reading Room" link)
• The Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art - Free streaming download of an entire 88-minute documentary, El Lissitzky, by Leo Lorez (Realplayer required)