Announcer (Ansager)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
After seeing a 1920 production of Victory over the Sun, a Russian Futurist opera by Aleksei Kruchenykh and Mikhail Matyushin with costumes and set designs by Kazimir Malevich, the avant-garde artist El Lissitzky was inspired to restage it entirely with mechanical puppets, or automatons. The performance was not realized, but he published a portfolio of ten large lithographs depicting his vision for the main characters. His vocabulary of abstracted architectonic forms shows the influence of Suprematism, which rejected traditional perspectival illusionism in favor of geometric shapes floating against a white space.
Caption
El Lissitzky Russian, 1890–1941. Announcer (Ansager), 1923. Lithograph on wove paper, 13 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (35.2 x 27.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, By exchange, 50.191.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.50.191.2.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Announcer (Ansager)
Date
1923
Medium
Lithograph on wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
13 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (35.2 x 27.3 cm)
Signatures
Signed, "El Lissitzky," lower right or lower left of composition in pencil. Each print signed.
Credit Line
By exchange
Accession Number
50.191.2
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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