Lisitsky El Biography

But he went to Germany to study, since he was not accepted to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts - according to the laws of that time, the share of Jews in an educational institution could not exceed three percent. In Darmstadt, Lisitsky studied architecture at the faculty of the High Polytechnic Institute. And after graduation, he went on a journey to explore the monuments of Jewish art, since its origin was important to him.

Due to the beginning of World War I, Lisitsky was forced to hurry to return to his homeland. In order to be able to engage in professional activities in Russia, he entered the Riga Polytechnic Institute, evacuated during the war in Moscow. And in parallel, he settled down an assistant to the architect Roman Klein and managed to participate in the design of the Egyptian hall in the Pushkin Museum.

The task of the participants was to modernize the East European Jewish community, to turn it from a religious group into a modern nation. Therefore, they needed contemporary art, for the creation of which Lisitsky and other young artists took up. In the year, Lisitsky’s quarry begins to develop a graphic artist. Suprematism in the year Chagall, with whom Lisitsky was friends, invited him and Casimir Malevich to conduct classes in the recently opened Vitebsk People's Art School.

True, over time, he left the Shagalov principles and turned to Suprematism. These are abstract geometric compositions that could exist in both two -dimensional and three -dimensional form. Prun 6. Photo: Getty Images developed: they stopped reminiscent of architectural drawings, circles, sharp corners, stars appeared in them. Malevich himself admitted that from a suprematic experiment they grew into an independent phenomenon.

And it caused disagreements between artists. In the year, El Lisitsky left Vitebsk to Germany, but friendship still continued, and already abroad, El began promoted the art of Malevich. For five years he lived and worked in the West, becoming a kind of link between Soviet and German artists. The key to this universal visual language was to be an abstraction - an artistic technique that Mondrian studied and practiced.

The association also consisted of architect Herrit Ritiveld, who built the famous Schroeder house in Utrecht, which, by the way, was a huge prun. Lisitsky and graphics many know Lisitsky exclusively from his minimalistic posters. He abandoned complex manuscript patterns and created a graphics in the emphasized simplified and geometric style. On it is a red triangle, symbolizing the Red Army, wedges into the white circle, crushing the defense of the anti -communist and imperialist forces of the White Army.

Photo: Getty images, in addition, the pages of the collection were decorated with red-black Suprematic drawings, and on the first turn there was a circle with a triangle, circle, square and letters L, Yu and B-the initials of the lover of Mayakovsky Lily Yuryevna Brik. Lisitsky and architecture as an architect by education Lisitsky sought to give Suprematism the volume and transfer it from paper to reality.

The project of a skyscraper on a passionate boulevard in Moscow, year. Lazar Lisitsky received an order for a printing project from the leadership of the magazine in the year. The avant -garde building has already been erected, but in the year the building was transferred to the NKVD and currently belongs to the FSB. Photo: Sergei Dorokhovsky. Lisitsky and design in X El plunged into the design of exhibitions.

He replaced the drawings by their enlarged volumetric models from plywood. He also treated the walls with special paint, the shade of which changed depending on the viewing angle. Thanks to this, the audience who passed by, it seemed that the walls were constantly changing color. The catalog of the Soviet pavilion at the international exhibition of the press, Cologne, year.

Photo: Getty Images in July of the same year, the artist mounted at a large Berlin exhibition, where he was provided with a separate room, a large conceptual installation. Lisitsky placed enlarged models from plywood ranges in such a way that they set the direction and even the inspection pace for visitors. The interior of the Soviet pavilion at the international exhibition of the press in Cologne.

Photo: Getty Images in the year under his leadership in Moscow was a All -Union typographic exhibition. Lisitsky and experimental photography in the years among the artists of the avant -garde, experimental photography became popular. And also masterfully worked with photomonta.

Lisitsky died of tuberculosis in December. One of the last works of the artist. The poster was exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in the year.