El Lissitzky art links 

Original works by El Lissitzky available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Mini-site for the 1998-99 exhibition Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice   NEW!

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Untitled

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Title sheet to Part of the Show Machinery, 1923

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "L"

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (in Russian)  

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
Had Gadya: One only kid which my father bought for two zuzim, 1919

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
Proun 19D, 1922
Composition, 1922

Philadelphia Museum of Art

State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)  
Selbstporträt mit Zirkel (Self-Portrait with Compass), 1924

Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)  
Proun 30, 1920

El Lissitzky at the The British Museum, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Proun P23, no.6, 1919

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Scroll down to the very bottom of the page

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

El Lissitzky at The Artchive

El Lissitzky at The Athenaeum
3 works online by Lissitzky

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

California State University WorldImages Database

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on El Lissitzky  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy search inside The Isms of Art: 1924-1914 look inside El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet