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Also Known As Lazar Markovich Lisitsky • Lasar Markowitsch Lissitzky • Eliezer Lissitzky • Elizar Lissitzky
Born November 10, 1890 • near Smolensk • Russia
Died December 30, 1941 (aged 51) • Moscow • Russia
Movement / Style Constructivism • Novembergruppe • abstract art

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Catalog cover by El Lissitzky in Bauhaus Asymmetric style, featuring large, bold black letters and numbers arranged at varying angles with Russian and German text.
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Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster
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Sonia Delaunay
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Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova
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Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Russian artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages
French painter and printmaker
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Max Bill
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Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
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Henryk Stażewski
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Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
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Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova
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Kazimir Malevich: The Knife Grinder, or Principle of Glittering
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avant-garde painter
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Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov
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Serge Poliakoff
painter and lithographer
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Argentine artist
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French printer and typesetter
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