From 1921–25, the Russian architect and artist El Lissitzky served as Soviet cultural ambassador to Weimar Germany. This role deepened his influence on the Bauhaus artists, architects and designers. He organised exhibitions of Russian abstract art in Berlin and of his own art in Hanover. 
His solo exhibition led to a commission by Hanover’s Kestner Society to make a portfolio of lithographs. This print from the series shows Lissitzky’s Proun Room: the ultimate blending of architecture and abstract art. Debuted in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1923, it was a total environment of geometric reliefs and connecting slats. The details in this lithograph enabled the architectural reconstruction of the Proun Room in 1965.