In 2007 staff members of the Russian Avant-Garde Fund discovered in a Moscow archive previously unknown blueprints for the printing plant of JSC Ogonek authored by El Lissitzky, a luminary of 20th-century art.
The grandiose plan, reminiscent of Lissitzky’s famous “horizontal skyscraper” projects,was not realized in full. Only one of the three planned buildings has been built. Lazar (El) Lissitzky, a canonical figure of 20th-century art history, is known primarily as an author of drawings, posters, and illustrator for leading art exhibitions. El Lissitzky’s architectural designs are well known to art historians, but most of them have not been carried out. The JSC Ogonek printing plant (1930) is likely to be the only extant building based on the blueprints of this master.
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