Cover design for a publication by the Soviet 'Committee to Combat Unemployment', 1919. Artist: Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, (1890 - 1941), known as El Lissitzky, was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements. In 1921, he took up a job as the Russian cultural ambassador to Weimar Germany, working with and influencing important figures of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements

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