He was a disciple of Chagall’s in Vitebsk, but ultimately sided with his mentor and friend Malevich against him. His friend Schwitters, with van Doesburg, joined him in promoting an International of Art. Ehrenburg lent him a camera to photograph the Eiffel Tower, started a magazine with him, and reported Gabo, Shklovsky, Altman, Mayakovsky, Archipenko and him fighting furiously after a lecture by Puni. He taught with Tatlin and Moholy-Nagy, and met le Corbusier, Léger and Mondrian while on holiday. Taueber-Arp and his old collaborators Arp and Stam collected him when he arrived in Switzerland for TB treatment.
El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky knew…
- Lajos Kassák
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Gerrit Rietveld
- J. J. P. Oud
- Cornelis van Eesteren
- Mart Stam
- Alexander Archipenko
- Naum Gabo
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Theo van Doesburg
- Marc Chagall
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Le Corbusier
- Kurt Schwitters
- Hans Richter
- Hans Arp
- Fernand Léger
- Ivan Puni
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Nathan Altman
- Piet Mondrian
- Vsevolod Meyerhold
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Sergei Tretyakov
- Kasimir Malevich
- Tristan Tzara
- Jan Tschichold
- Alexandra Exter
- Viking Eggeling