El Lissitzky, the renaissance man of the Soviet avant-garde, is the subject of a major career survey in Russia, which opened this week. It is the first such show in the country for 30 years.
Ambitiously organised across two venues, the State Tretyakov Museum and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the shows are being treated as a single exhibition. They draw in part on an archive of the artist’s work preserved against all odds by Sophie Küppers, his German wife, who was an art historian and collector. Around 400 works are on show.
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