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:
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| Victory over the Sun: All is well that begins well and has no end, 1913 | Reminiscence of Ravenna, 1914 | Flying Sun, 1916 |
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| 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 |
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| Illustration for Jewish folk tale ‘The Goat’, 1919 | Illustration to Aggadah, 1919 | Illustration to ‘Chad Gadya’, 1919 |
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| Proun 1 A, Bridge I, 1919 | Proun 1 C, 1919 | Proun 23, No.6, 1919 |
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| Proun 5 A, 1919 | Beat all the scattered, 1920 | Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920 |
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| Black Anxious, 1920 | Book cover for ‘Suprematic tale about two squares’, 1920 | Composition, c.1920 |
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| 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 |
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| Here are two squares, 1920 | Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920 | Illustration to ‘For the voice’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Insert the red and clear on black, 1920 | Lenin Tribune, 1920 | Preliminary sketch for a poster, 1920 |
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| Proun 30, 1920 | Proun 4 B, c.1920 | Suprematic tale about two squares, 1920 |
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| There is over, 1920 | To all the children, 1920 | Untitled, c.1920 |
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| Wendingen, 1921 | Cover of the avant guard periodical ‘Vyeshch’, 1922 | Cover of the book ‘Teyashim’ (‘Four billy goats’), 1922 |
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| Proun, 1922 | Proun 19D, 1922 | Announcer, 1923 |
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| Catalog cover, 1923 | Cover of Broom, 1923 | New Man, 1923 |
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| Proun, 1923 | Proun G7, 1923 | Merz’ Magazine Layout, 1924 |
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| Proun 99, 1924 | Iron in clouds’, for Strastnoy Boulevard, 1925 | Proun, c.1925 |
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| Cover for ‘Good!’ by Vladimir Mayyakovsky, 1927 | Cover for ‘Good!’ by Vladimir Mayyakovsky, 1927 | Printing industries, 1927 |
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| Basic Calculus, 1928 | Chair for the exhibition, 1928 | Four (arithmetic) actions, 1928 |
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| 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 |
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| Proun 3 A | Proun 30 T | Proun 43 |
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| Proun 8 | Proun Interpenetrating Planes | Tatlin at Work |
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| All for the front! All for Victory! |