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El Lissitzky Biography
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1890 |
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Born: Pochinok, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
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1909 - 1914 |
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Studied architecture in Darmstadt
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1918 |
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appointed Commissioner of Artistic Affairs for Vitebsk, Belarus
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1919 |
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invited by Marc Chagall to teach painting at the newly formed People's Art School, Vitebsk, Belarus
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1920 |
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Malevich and El Lissitsky co-founded 'Molposnovis' (short-lived—proto-suprematist association artists)
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1890 - 1921 |
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lived and studied in the city of Vitebsk,Belarus
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1921 |
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Professor at the Moscow Art Academy, Moscow, Russia
moved to Berlin to become the Russian cultural ambassador to Weimar Germany
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1922 |
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Founded the international journal 'Vesc'
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1921 - 1925 |
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Worked in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
Designed the 'Wolkenbegel' project [office blocks for Moscow, some with splayed legs straddling streets]
Returned to Moscow and taught at the post-Revolutionary art school Vkhutemas
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1923 - 1925 |
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El Lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers in Moscow
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1927 |
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married Sophie Kuppers
taught interior design, metalwork, and architecture at VKhUTEMAS (State Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops) in Moscow
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1941 |
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Died: Moscow, Russia
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (solo)
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2007
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DISSONANZ UND HARMONIE - Galerie Stolz Berlin, Berlin (solo)
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2006
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El Lissitzky - Sieg über die Sonne - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen (solo)
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2006
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El Lissitzky - Futurist Portfolios - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (solo)
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2003
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Constructs for a Brave New World: El Lissitzky’s Proun and Victory over the Sun - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (solo)
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2001
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El Lissitzky - 2 Quadrate - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (solo)
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2000
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El Lissitzky (1890-1941) Photographien - Galerie Berinson, Berlin (solo)
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1999
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El Lissitzky - Más allá de la abstracción - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona (solo)
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1995
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El Lissitzky - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (solo)
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1976
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El Lissitzky - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (solo)
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), Germany
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Spain
Fotostiftung Schweiz (Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie), Winterthur, Switzerland
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Tate Britain, London (England), UK
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA, USA
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| Literature |
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2003
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Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk Berlin Moscow - 2003 - 275 pages
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1999
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El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet ... - 1999 - 252 pages
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| Links to further information |
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