Print 6 from '1o Kestnermappe Proun'
About this artwork
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.
Published September 2023
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artist:El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941) Russian
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title:Print 6 from '1o Kestnermappe Proun'
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date created:Published 1923
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materials:Lithograph on paper
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measurements:44.00 x 60.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1983
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accession number:GMA 2767 H
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gallery:
El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky
Born in Russia, El Lissitsky studied engineering and architecture in Germany from 1909 to 1914, returning to Russia at the outbreak of war. In 1919 he became Professor of Architecture and Graphic Art at art school in Vitebsk, working alongside Marc Chagall and the suprematist artist Kasimir...