El Lazar Lissitzky

Russian Photographer · 1890–1941

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After studying architecture in Germany, El Lissitzky returned to his native Russia, where he became active in Jewish cultural activities, illustrating books with Jewish themes. In 1919, he was invited to teach architecture and graphics at the Vitebsk Art School, where he was influenced by Suprematism, a form of abstract painting in which colored planes hover in space over a neutral ground. Late in