El Lissitzky
1890 to 1941
17 documented presences
12 places
Quo Fuit places 17 dated presences for El Lissitzky across 12 places, from 1890 to 1941. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
El Lissitzky (born Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, – 30 December 1941) was a Russian and Soviet artist, active as a painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker, photographer, and architect.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where El Lissitzky was documented, and when
23 November 1890exact date
Pochinok, Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblastattested
“Lazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on 23 November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk, Russian Empire.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1891 to 1898period
Vitebskattested
“From 1891 to 1898 Lissitzky's family lived in Vitebsk, where Lazar's brother and sister were born.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1912year
Parisattested
“Lissitzky had travelled to Paris and Belgium during 1912, and spent several months in St.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1915year
Moscowattested
“When World War I began, Lissitzky returned to Russia via Switzerland and Balkans; and in 1915 started studies at Riga Polytechnic Institute, that was evacuated to Moscow, and started to participate in exhibitions.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1915year
Polytechnic Institute of Rigaattested
“When World War I began, Lissitzky returned to Russia via Switzerland and Balkans; and in 1915 started studies at Riga Polytechnic Institute, that was evacuated to Moscow, and started to participate in exhibitions.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1915year
Switzerlandattested
“When World War I began, Lissitzky returned to Russia via Switzerland and Balkans; and in 1915 started studies at Riga Polytechnic Institute, that was evacuated to Moscow, and started to participate in exhibitions.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1917year
Kievattested
“Lissitzky moved to Kiev in 1917, and started to work with Yiddish book design.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1918year
Kievattested
“responds to the requirements of modern Jewish art combining avant-garde techniques and Jewish folk art." In 1918, Lissitzky together with Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and some others founded the art section of the Ku…”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
May 1919month
Vitebskattested
“as Lissitzky saw it, straddled loyalty to the communist Soviet state and the desire to not betray Jewish culture: its vision of the future was distant and universal, projected far ahead into the cosmos ..." In May 1919 Lissitzky returned…”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1923year
Weimarattested
“Lissitzky lived in Berlin in the early 1920s and was aware of the Bauhaus school and works through his friends and colleagues; in 1923 he was introduced to Walter Gropius and later visited Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1923year
Bauhausattested
“Lissitzky lived in Berlin in the early 1920s and was aware of the Bauhaus school and works through his friends and colleagues; in 1923 he was introduced to Walter Gropius and later visited Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1923year
Berlinattested
“Lissitzky lived in Berlin in the early 1920s and was aware of the Bauhaus school and works through his friends and colleagues; in 1923 he was introduced to Walter Gropius and later visited Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1925 to 1930period
Moscowattested
“In 1925, after the Swiss government denied to renew his visa, Lissitzky returned to Moscow and began teaching interior design and furniture design at the Wood and Metalwork faculty (Dermetfak) of the (State Higher Artistic and Technical…”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1925year
Germanyattested
“After his return from Germany in 1925, Lissitzky met his father and brother Ruvim: The following morning my father and brother came to meet me at the station in Moscow and took me by another train directly to the dacha.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1927year
1941year
30 December 1941exact date
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Places El Lissitzky is documented in
Moscow4 presences · 1915 to 1941Kiev2 presences · 1917 to 1918
Vitebsk2 presences · 1891 to 1919
Bauhaus1 presence · 1923Berlin1 presence · 1923Germany1 presence · 1925Paris1 presence · 1912Switzerland1 presence · 1915Weimar1 presence · 1923Novosibirsk1 presence · 1941
Pochinok, Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast1 presence · 1890
Polytechnic Institute of Riga1 presence · 1915
Other places tied to El Lissitzky in the record
In each of these, a source puts El Lissitzky and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that El Lissitzky was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1899year
Smolenskmentioned
“In 1899 Lazar moved to Smolensk, where he lived with his grandfather and attended City School 1.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1903year
Vitebskmentioned
“In 1903, during a summer vacation he spent with his parents in Vitebsk, he started to receive instruction from Yury Pen, a famous Jewish artist and teacher.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1909year
Darmstadt University of Technologymentioned
“Instead, in 1909 he moved to Germany to study architectural engineering at the Darmstadt Polytechnic Institute.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1909year
Germanymentioned
“Instead, in 1909 he moved to Germany to study architectural engineering at the Darmstadt Polytechnic Institute.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1909year
Darmstadtmentioned
“Instead, in 1909 he moved to Germany to study architectural engineering at the Darmstadt Polytechnic Institute.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1913 to 1914period
Italymentioned
“In 1913 he went to a tour of Italy; he wrote in his diary that "I covered more than 1,200 kilometers in Italy on foot – making sketches and studying." He graduated cum laude from Darmstadt Polytechnic in 1914 .”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1913 to 1914period
Darmstadtmentioned
“In 1913 he went to a tour of Italy; he wrote in his diary that "I covered more than 1,200 kilometers in Italy on foot – making sketches and studying." He graduated cum laude from Darmstadt Polytechnic in 1914 .”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1917year
Russiamentioned
“A bare outline of his activities can give only some indication of this wide-ranging multifariousness: Lissitzky the architecture student in Germany before the Great War; Lissitzky the participant in the revival of Jewish culture in Russi…”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1917year
Germanymentioned
“A bare outline of his activities can give only some indication of this wide-ranging multifariousness: Lissitzky the architecture student in Germany before the Great War; Lissitzky the participant in the revival of Jewish culture in Russi…”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1918year
Moscowmentioned
“Also in 1918, young architect Nikolai Kolli created The Red Wedge monument in Moscow, that "consisted of a red triangle vertically inserted as a wedge into a white rectangular block.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
May 1918month
Red Squarementioned
“Though Lissitzky bragged that he designed the flag for the All-Union Central Executive Committee "which was carried across Red Square on the first of May 1918", there is no other evidence of that.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1919 to 1923period
Berlinmentioned
“Both books were published in Berlin in 1922 and 1923, but based on the style of illustrations scholars consider both books to be created before 1919.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
April 1919month
Ukrainementioned
“According to the art historian Eva Forgács, in April 1919 a decree issued by the new Soviet state (by Joseph Stalin with support of Yevsektsiya leader Samuil Agurskii), "abolished the elected local communal units of Jewish life, the kehi…”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
October 1919month
Moscowmentioned
“However, it was not until October 1919 when Lissitzky, then on an errand in Moscow, persuaded Malevich to relocate to Vitebsk.”
source: Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
1920year
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1920year
1921year
1921year
1921year
23 September 1921exact date
1922year
1922year
1922year
Documented at the same place, the same year
Lev VygotskyMoscow · 1925Kazimir MalevichVitebsk · 1919Aleksandra EksterKiev · 1918László Moholy-NagyWeimar · 1923Mykhailo HrushevskyKiev · 1917Georgy PyatakovKiev · 1917Georgy ZhukovSoviet · 1941Fritz TodtSoviet · 1941Yanka KupalaSoviet · 1941Marc ChagallMoscow · 1915Sergei RachmaninoffMoscow · 1915Alexander AlekhineMoscow · 1915
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