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Constructivism is a browsable saved.works movement page spanning 72 works by 2 artists across 1 institution. Leading artists include Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky. Works are grouped from artist fallbacks plus medium, title, tag, and vision cues when those signals line up with the movement.

72 works

2 leading artists

1 institution

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 8 Genius Siska by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 8 Genius Siska by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 9 Yankee Go Home by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 9 Yankee Go Home by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

Ispaniia. Okean. Gavana. Meksika. Amerika (Spain, the Ocean, Havana, Mexico, America) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Ispaniia. Okean. Gavana. Meksika. Amerika (Spain, the Ocean, Havana, Mexico, America)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Untitled (Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Untitled (Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Katalog posmertnoi vystavki khudozhnika konstruktora L.S. Popovoi (Catalogue of the Posthumous Exhibition of the Artist-Constructor L.S. Popova) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Katalog posmertnoi vystavki khudozhnika konstruktora L.S. Popovoi (Catalogue of the Posthumous Exhibition of the Artist-Constructor L.S. Popova)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2 by El Lissitzky

Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2

El Lissitzky · 1930

Museum of Modern Art · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

Cover study for America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States (New Ways of Building in the World) by El Lissitzky

Cover study for America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States (New Ways of Building in the World)

El Lissitzky · 1929-30

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Cover study for Russia: Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (New Ways of Building in the World) by El Lissitzky

Cover study for Russia: Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (New Ways of Building in the World)

El Lissitzky · 1929-30

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

"Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema" by Vladimir Mayakovsky by El Lissitzky

"Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema" by Vladimir Mayakovsky

El Lissitzky · 1927

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Arkhitektura VKhUTEMAS. Raboty arkhitekturnogo fakul'teta VKhUTEMASa, 1920-1927 (Architecture of VKhUTEMAS: The Works of the Department of Architecture, 1920-1927) by El Lissitzky

Arkhitektura VKhUTEMAS. Raboty arkhitekturnogo fakul'teta VKhUTEMASa, 1920-1927 (Architecture of VKhUTEMAS: The Works of the Department of Architecture, 1920-1927)

El Lissitzky · 1927

Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress illustration (cover)

Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound) by El Lissitzky

Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound)

El Lissitzky · 1923

Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Dlia golosa (For the Voice) by El Lissitzky

Dlia golosa (For the Voice)

El Lissitzky · 1923

Museum of Modern Art · Book with twenty-five letterpress illustrations (including cover)

Composition by El Lissitzky

Composition

El Lissitzky · 1922

Museum of Modern Art · Oil and tempera on wood

Elfandel (The Elephant's Child) by El Lissitzky

Elfandel (The Elephant's Child)

El Lissitzky · 1922

Museum of Modern Art · Book with 14 letterpress illustrations

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 1 by El Lissitzky

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 1

El Lissitzky · 1922-1923

Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 2 by El Lissitzky

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 2

El Lissitzky · 1922-1923

Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 4 by El Lissitzky

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 4

El Lissitzky · 1922-1923

Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front

"Pro dva kvadrata" by El Lissitzky by El Lissitzky

"Pro dva kvadrata" by El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky · 1920

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

An Old Man, His Head Two Paces Behind (Alter) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne) by El Lissitzky

An Old Man, His Head Two Paces Behind (Alter) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne)

El Lissitzky · 1920–21, published 1923

Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

Announcer (Ansager) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne) by El Lissitzky

Announcer (Ansager) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne)

El Lissitzky · 1920–21, published 1923

Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

Anxious Ones (Ängstliche) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne) by El Lissitzky

Anxious Ones (Ängstliche) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne)

El Lissitzky · 1920–21, published 1923

Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

Back cover from Proun by El Lissitzky

Back cover from Proun

El Lissitzky · 1920

Museum of Modern Art · Gouache and pencil on prepared board from…

Air de dance pour piano / pesnia pliaska palestinskikh evreev / shira chadashah (Dance Music) by El Lissitzky

Air de dance pour piano / pesnia pliaska palestinskikh evreev / shira chadashah (Dance Music)

El Lissitzky · 1919

Museum of Modern Art · Cover with letterpress illustration on front

Cover from Komitet po bor'be s bezrabotitsei (Committee to Combat Unemployment) by El Lissitzky

Cover from Komitet po bor'be s bezrabotitsei (Committee to Combat Unemployment)

El Lissitzky · 1919

Museum of Modern Art · Folded sheet with two lithographed illustrations and…

Der milner, di milnerin, un di milshtayner (The Miller, His Wife, and Their Millstones) by El Lissitzky

Der milner, di milnerin, un di milshtayner (The Miller, His Wife, and Their Millstones)

El Lissitzky · 1919

Museum of Modern Art · Book with 11 letterpress illustrations

Di hun vos hot gevolt hoben a kam (The Hen that Wanted a Comb) by El Lissitzky

Di hun vos hot gevolt hoben a kam (The Hen that Wanted a Comb)

El Lissitzky · 1919

Museum of Modern Art · Book with ten lithographed illustrations

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 2 Secret Sign by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 2 Secret Sign by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 3 Invitation Given by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 3 Invitation Given by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 4 Corpse in Three Part Mirror by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 4 Corpse in Three Part Mirror by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 5 Radio Town by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 5 Radio Town by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 6 Pro and Con by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 6 Pro and Con by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 7 Black Hand by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 7 Black Hand by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

An Oath by Aleksandr Rodchenko

An Oath

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1935

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Bedbug by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Bedbug

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1929

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Biznes. Sbornik literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov (Business: Collection of the Literary Center of Constructivists) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Biznes. Sbornik literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov (Business: Collection of the Literary Center of Constructivists)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1929

Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Assembling for a Demonstration by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Assembling for a Demonstration

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1928-30

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

At the Telephone by Aleksandr Rodchenko

At the Telephone

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1928

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

"Materializatsia fantastiki" by Ilya Erenberg by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"Materializatsia fantastiki" by Ilya Erenberg

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1927

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

1905—October: Soviets of the Workers’ Deputies (1905—Oktiabr’: sovety rabochikh deputatov) (Poster no. 9 of 25 from The History of the All-Union Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] in Posters [lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh]) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

1905—October: Soviets of the Workers’ Deputies (1905—Oktiabr’: sovety rabochikh deputatov) (Poster no. 9 of 25 from The History of the All-Union Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] in Posters [lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh])

Aleksandr Rodchenko · c.1926

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

1919 in Soviet Russia (1919 v sovetskoi Rossii). Poster no. 20 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

1919 in Soviet Russia (1919 v sovetskoi Rossii). Poster no. 20 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Armed Rebellion, November–December 1905 (1905 Vooruzhennoe vosstanie noiabr’–dekabr’). Poster no. 10 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Armed Rebellion, November–December 1905 (1905 Vooruzhennoe vosstanie noiabr’–dekabr’). Poster no. 10 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Boats by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Boats

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Balconies by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Balconies

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1925

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 1 Revenge's Mask by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 1 Revenge's Mask by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 10 Soviet Explosion by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 10 Soviet Explosion by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"Itogo" by S. Tretyakov by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"Itogo" by S. Tretyakov

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Cover: offset lithograph; interior: letterpress

"Pro eto" by Vladimir Mayakovsky by Aleksandr Rodchenko

"Pro eto" by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1923

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Abstract Drawing by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Abstract Drawing

Aleksandr Rodchenko · (1941)

Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

From the “Liberation of Labor” Group to the “Unions of Struggle,” 1883–1894 (Ot gruppy “Osvobozhdenie truda” do “Soiuzov bor’by,” 1883–1894). Poster no. 2 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

From the “Liberation of Labor” Group to the “Unions of Struggle,” 1883–1894 (Ot gruppy “Osvobozhdenie truda” do “Soiuzov bor’by,” 1883–1894). Poster no. 2 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Unions of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. The First Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. 1894–98 (Soiuzy bor’by za osvobozhdenie rabochego klassa. 1yi s”ezd Ross. Sots.-Dem. Rab. Partii. 1894–98). Poster no. 3 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko

Unions of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. The First Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. 1894–98 (Soiuzy bor’by za osvobozhdenie rabochego klassa. 1yi s”ezd Ross. Sots.-Dem. Rab. Partii. 1894–98). Poster no. 3 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Raboche-Krest'ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia (Worker-Peasant Red Army) by El Lissitzky

Raboche-Krest'ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia (Worker-Peasant Red Army)

El Lissitzky · 1934

Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress text and letterpress and…

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2 by El Lissitzky

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2

El Lissitzky · 1933

Museum of Modern Art · Journal, photogravure printed

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda by El Lissitzky

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda

El Lissitzky · 1933

Museum of Modern Art · Book

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen Dnepostroi (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: On Dnepostroi), no. 10 by El Lissitzky

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen Dnepostroi (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: On Dnepostroi), no. 10

El Lissitzky · 1932

Museum of Modern Art · Journal

Frankreich. Die Entwicklung der neuen Ideen nach Konstruktion und Form (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 3.) (France. The Development of New Ideas of Construction and Form [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 3) by El Lissitzky

Frankreich. Die Entwicklung der neuen Ideen nach Konstruktion und Form (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 3.) (France. The Development of New Ideas of Construction and Form [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 3)

El Lissitzky · 1930

Museum of Modern Art · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

Russland. Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 1) (Russia. The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 1) by El Lissitzky

Russland. Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 1) (Russia. The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 1)

El Lissitzky · 1930

Museum of Modern Art · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

USSR, auf der internationalen Pelzfach Ausstellung, Staatenhalle Leipzig by El Lissitzky

USSR, auf der internationalen Pelzfach Ausstellung, Staatenhalle Leipzig

El Lissitzky · 1930

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Stroitel'stvo Moskvy. Ezhemesiachnyi zhurnal Moskovskogo oblastnogo ispolnitel'nogo komiteta Soveta R., K. i K. deputatov, no. 5 (Building Moscow: Monthly Journal of The Moscow Soviet of Workers, Peasants, and Red Army Deputies, no. 5) by El Lissitzky

Stroitel'stvo Moskvy. Ezhemesiachnyi zhurnal Moskovskogo oblastnogo ispolnitel'nogo komiteta Soveta R., K. i K. deputatov, no. 5 (Building Moscow: Monthly Journal of The Moscow Soviet of Workers, Peasants, and Red Army Deputies, no. 5)

El Lissitzky · 1929

Museum of Modern Art · Book with photomontage reproductions

USSR Russische Ausstellung by El Lissitzky

USSR Russische Ausstellung

El Lissitzky · 1929

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

USSR Russische Ausstellung by El Lissitzky

USSR Russische Ausstellung

El Lissitzky · 1929

Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

Zhurnalist, no. 1 by El Lissitzky

Zhurnalist, no. 1

El Lissitzky · 1929

Museum of Modern Art · Wraparound cover with letterpress lettering and typographic…

Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Austellung, Köln 1928 (Catalogue of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Pressa Exhibition, Cologne 1928) by El Lissitzky

Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Austellung, Köln 1928 (Catalogue of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Pressa Exhibition, Cologne 1928)

El Lissitzky · 1928

Museum of Modern Art · Illustrated book with photogravure illustrations

Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken: Pressa Köln (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics) by El Lissitzky

Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken: Pressa Köln (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)

El Lissitzky · 1928

Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Zapiski poeta. Povest' (Notes of a Poet: A Tale) by El Lissitzky

Zapiski poeta. Povest' (Notes of a Poet: A Tale)

El Lissitzky · 1928

Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Invitation to the All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition by El Lissitzky

Invitation to the All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition

El Lissitzky · 1927

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem) by El Lissitzky

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)

El Lissitzky · 1927

Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem) by El Lissitzky

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)

El Lissitzky · 1927

Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Izvestiia ASNOVA by El Lissitzky

Izvestiia ASNOVA

El Lissitzky · 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Record by El Lissitzky

Record

El Lissitzky · 1926

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924) by El Lissitzky

Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924)

El Lissitzky · 1925

Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Kurt Schwitters by El Lissitzky

Kurt Schwitters

El Lissitzky · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

N²ATUR + T²ECHNIK + K²UNST = √-1 = i by El Lissitzky

N²ATUR + T²ECHNIK + K²UNST = √-1 = i

El Lissitzky · 1924

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print with black ink