El Lissitsky
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Lazar Markovich Lissitzky [Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий] (November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), more famous as El Lissitzky [Эль Лисицкий], was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect.
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[edit] El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967; 1980)
- Edited by Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers
- We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.
- Page 378
- The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an oranized unity.
- Page 384