KLUCIS, Gustav

A Latvian who arrived in Moscow in 1918 as a part of a Latvian regiment assigned to guard the Kremlin, Klucis became active in art, producing, in collaboration with his wife Kulagina, a lithograph called Dynamic City (1919), in which, over the background of a filled-in circle, planes appear to extend forward and backward. He produced Photomontages for Vladimir Mayakovsky 's V. I. Lenin (1925); he co-designed Aleksei Kruchonykh's book Chetrye foneticheskikh romana (Four Phonetic Novels,...