El Lissitzky
Artist, architect and typographer
Russian artist and designer, one of the leading figures of Constructivism.
El Lissitzky trained as an architect in Darmstadt and taught in Vitebsk, where he was influenced by Kazimir Malevich. He called his abstract compositions Prouns.
He designed posters, books and exhibitions and worked in Germany in the 1920s, where he influenced the new typography.