Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (1890–1941), better known as El Lissitzky, was a Russian artist who, along with Kazimir Malevich, helped to develop Suprematism. He specialized in a wide range of artistic practices including design, photography, typography, and architecture. Early in his career, Lissitzky illustrated Yiddish children’s books and at the young age of 15 he became a teacher. Later in life, he served as the Russian Cultural Ambassador in Germany which gave him the opportunity to work alongside central figures of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements . Lissitzky believed that artists could be agents for change and worked closely with the USSR to develop anti-Nazi propaganda throughout WWII.

Paintings by El Lissitzky in Chronological Order:

Victory over the Sun: All is well that begins well and has no end, 1913	Reminiscence of Ravenna, 1914	Flying Sun, 1916
Book cover for ‘Ingle-Tsingl-Khvat’ by Mani Leib, c.1918	Book cover for ‘Chad Gadya’ by El Lissitzky, 1919	Illustration by El Lissitzky to ‘The Hen Who Wanted A Comb’, 1919
Illustration for Jewish folk tale ‘The Goat’, 1919	Illustration to Aggadah, 1919	Illustration to ‘Chad Gadya’, 1919
Proun 1 A, Bridge I, 1919	Proun 1 C, 1919	Proun 23, No.6, 1919
Proun 5 A, 1919	Beat all the scattered, 1920	Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920
Black Anxious, 1920	Book cover for ‘Suprematic tale about two squares’, 1920	Composition, c.1920
Cover to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Do not read, grab bars, paper, pieces of wood, fold, paint, build, 1920	Flying to earth from a distance, 1920
Here are two squares, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920
Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920
Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920
Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920
Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920
Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920	Illustration to ‘Suprematic tale about two squares’, 1920	Illustration to ‘Suprematic tale about two squares’, 1920
Insert the red and clear on black, 1920	Lenin Tribune, 1920	Preliminary sketch for a poster, 1920
Proun 30, 1920	Proun 4 B, c.1920	Suprematic tale about two squares, 1920
There is over, 1920	To all the children, 1920	Untitled, c.1920
Wendingen, 1921	Cover of the avant guard periodical ‘Vyeshch’, 1922	Cover of the book ‘Teyashim’ (‘Four billy goats’), 1922
Proun, 1922	Proun 19D, 1922	Announcer, 1923
Catalog cover, 1923	Cover of Broom, 1923	New Man, 1923
Proun, 1923	Proun G7, 1923	Merz’ Magazine Layout, 1924
Proun 99, 1924	Iron in clouds’, for Strastnoy Boulevard, 1925	Proun, c.1925
Cover for ‘Good!’ by Vladimir Mayyakovsky, 1927	Cover for ‘Good!’ by Vladimir Mayyakovsky, 1927	Printing industries, 1927
Basic Calculus, 1928	Chair for the exhibition, 1928	Four (arithmetic) actions, 1928
Building in Moscow, 1929	Cover of booklet of Soviet Division of the International Exhibition of Hygiene in Dresden, 1930	Central Park of Culture and Leisure Sparrow Hills
Proun 3 A	Proun 30 T	Proun 43
Proun 8	Proun Interpenetrating Planes	Tatlin at Work
All for the front! All for Victory!