The Life and Art of El Lissitzky Born Lazar Markovich Lissitzky on November 23, 1890, the man who would become known as El Lissitzky entered a world of quiet tradition in Pochinok. This small Jewish community lay about 50 kilometers southeast of Smolensk in the Russian Empire. His father, Mordukh Zalmanovich Lissitzky, was a man of letters and travel, a well-educated agent who moved through the world with a command of English and German. This linguistic breadth and the family's connections to the broader European landscape would eventually mirror the expansive, restless energy of the artist…
A chart of El Lissitzky's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.