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Proun 93 (Conical) El Lissitzky, 1923
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Proun 93 (Conical)

El Lissitzky Β· 1923

Why it's great

A circle with a spiral of rings seems to stretch like a spring toward a tiny black stick. El Lissitzky made his Prouns in the early 1920s as part of the explosion of new art after the Russian Revolution.

Where to see it

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About the artist

El Lissitzky

1890–1941 Β· born in Pochinok Β· died in Moscow

El Lissitzky was a Russian artist born in Pochinok in 1890. He worked as an architect, a painter and a designer, and made his famous poster of the Red Wedge in 1919. He lived in Vitebsk, Germany and Moscow, and died in Moscow in 1941.

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