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El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

1890–1941

WA-00015942

PaintingSuprematismCubismExpressionism

Representation

None documented

45

Institutional Exhibitions

221

Works in Collection

410

Assets Indexed

4

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ152233

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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New Humans: Memories of the Future

New Museum

2026

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

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Abstractions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

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Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

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Deconstructivist Architecture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988

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The Modern Poster

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988

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European Drawing Between the Wars

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Drawings Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Sculptors' Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
NationalityArtsy· 85%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/el-lissitzky
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3569
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

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Movement

Suprematism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art Tate New Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (221)

Ispaniia. !No Pasaran! (Spain! They Shall Not Pass!)

Ispaniia. !No Pasaran! (Spain! They Shall Not Pass!)

1937 · Printed book with letterpress and photolithography, embossing and collaged photograph

31 × 23.2 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Industry of Socialism (Industriia sotsializma)

The Industry of Socialism (Industriia sotsializma)

1935 · Letterpress and gravure, complete set of 7 volumes in a slipcase

Each: 35 × 25.7 cm (13 13/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Slipcase: 36.7 × 27.5 × 5.5 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/8 × 2 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Machine building - Key to Reconstructionfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.5 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Industriia Sotsializma. Tiazhelaia Promyshlennost K VII Vsesoiuznomu S'Ezdy Sovetov (Industry of Socialism: Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets)

1935 · One of seven volumes

13 3/4 × 10 1/8 × 1/4" (35 × 25.7 × 0.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forward and beyond!from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an llustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 3/4" (35.4 x 24.7 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bolsheviks Awaken the Natural Wealth of Countriesfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 1/2" (35.4 x 24.2 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume [folder] with two maps and a loose pamphlet from an illustrated book of seven volumes

sheet (pamphlet): 13 5/8 x 5 1/8" (34.6 x 13 cm); sheet (.a map): 35 7/16 x 25 3/16" (90 x 64 cm); sheet (.b map larger one): 24 1/16 x 35 3/4" (61.1 x 90.8 cm); overall (volume): 13 11/16 x 10" (34.8 x 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

This is Living People, This is us and youfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Peasants on Tractor, USSR on Automobilefrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Industriia Sotsializma. Tiazhelaia Promyshlennost K VII Vsesoiuznomu S'Ezdy Sovetov (Industry of Socialism: Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets)

1935 · Seven volumes, quarto; gravure plates. An abundance of fold-outs, gate-folds, and accordion folds, collages, and cut-outs; printed on a variety of paper types. Six separately bound books in wrappers, each numbered one to six and with its own photographic images and embossed designs on the cover. One folder labeled "seven" with fold-out map laid in. Photographically illustrated canvas slipcase

original box, closed: 14 7/16 × 10 13/16 × 2 3/16" (36.7 × 27.5 × 5.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

sheet (pamphlet): 13 5/8 x 5 1/8" (34.6 x 13 cm); sheet (.a map): 35 7/16 x 25 3/16" (90 x 64 cm); sheet (.b map larger one): 24 1/16 x 35 3/4" (61.1 x 90.8 cm); overall (volume): 13 11/16 x 10" (34.8 x 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The New Face of USSRfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an Illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 7/8 x 9 9/16" (35.3 x 24.3 cm); overall: 13 7/8 x 10 1/4" (35.3 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Machine building - Key to Reconstructionfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.5 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · Illustrated book, seven volumes

each volume: see child records; overall (case with seven volumes): 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Peasants on Tractor, USSR on Automobilefrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bolsheviks Awaken the Natural Wealth of Countriesfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 1/2" (35.4 x 24.2 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

This is Living People, This is us and youfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forward and beyond!from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an llustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 3/4" (35.4 x 24.7 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Arkhitektura SSSR

Page: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4" (29.8 x 22.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Raboche-Krest'ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia (Worker-Peasant Red Army)

1934 · Book with letterpress text and letterpress and photogravure illustrations

page: 11 5/8 x 13 3/8" (29.6 x 34 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

SSSR stroit sotsializm (USSR Builds Socialism)

SSSR stroit sotsializm (USSR Builds Socialism)

1933 · Album illustrated with photomontages and decorated cloth-backed cream boards

34 × 26.5 × 2.3 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 × 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda

Museum of Modern Art

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

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

1933 · Journal, photogravure printed

page (each approx.): 16 5/16 × 11 5/8" (41.5 × 29.6 cm); overall (closed): 16 5/16 × 11 11/16 × 3/16" (41.5 × 29.7 × 0.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

SSSR stroit sotsializm

Page: 13 5/16 x 9 13/16" (33.8 x 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (6)

221 published of 390 catalogued · 250 with image

MoMA
162 publishedof 331 catalogued201 img
Art Institute Chicago
36 published36 img
Tate
11 published11 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
5 published
The Met
5 published
Nga
2 published2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 9)

9 entries · 1 sources

For the Voice
1923 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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First Kestner Portfolio Proun
1923 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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1. Part of the Show Machinery
1923 · Tate · 1 prov
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10. New Man
1923 · Tate · 1 prov
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6. Sportsmen
1923 · Tate · 1 prov
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2. The Announcer
1923 · Tate · 1 prov
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[title page]
1923 · Tate · 1 prov
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Plastic Figures of the Electro-Mechanical Show; Victory over the Sun: Globetrotter in Time
1923 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Plastic Figures of the Electro-Mechanical Show; Victory over the Sun: New Man
1923 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy artwork: Proun2 (1920)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Proun (1920)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Homenaje a El Lissitzky III / Tribute to El Lissitzky III (2021)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Homenaje a El Lissitzky II / Tribute to El Lissitzky II (2021)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Homenaje a El Lissitzky I / Tribute to El Lissitzky I (2021)

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Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Proun (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

12

Movements4

Suprematism Cubism Expressionism Abstract Art

Collections8

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

National Gallery of Art

In collection

Tate

In collection

New Museum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

New Museum