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Lot Essay
The portfolio includes, Teil der Schaumaschinerie - als Titelblatt (Part of the show Machinery - as title page); Ansager (Announcer); Posten (Sentry); Ängstliche (Anxious Ones); Globetrotter - in der Zeit (Globetrotter - in Time); Sportsmänner (Sportsmen); Zankstifter (Troublemaker); Alter - Kopf 2 Schritt hinten (Old Man - Two Paces Back); Totengräber (Gravediggers); and Neuer (New Man)
The success of the first Kestner portfolio led to the commission of his third portfolio with coloured lithographs called Sieg ber die Sonne. Here El Lissitzky based his design on gouaches that he had executed in Russia for a futuristic opera. Originally Sieg ber die Sonne was an opera by Alexei Kruchonikh which premiered in St. Petersburg in 1919, with music by Mikhail Matiushin and scenery and costumes by Kasimir Malevich. The ten plates in this portfolio represent Lissitzky's ideas for an incredible collection of mechanical puppets which he designed to perform in the same opera in the future. They are the culmination of the development of the artist's Suprematist ideas which sought their application in architecture, education, theatre and other aspects of everyday life. Their influence was considerable - notably on the production of print portfolios at the Bauhaus in Weimar by such artists as Archipenko, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy.
The success of the first Kestner portfolio led to the commission of his third portfolio with coloured lithographs called Sieg ber die Sonne. Here El Lissitzky based his design on gouaches that he had executed in Russia for a futuristic opera. Originally Sieg ber die Sonne was an opera by Alexei Kruchonikh which premiered in St. Petersburg in 1919, with music by Mikhail Matiushin and scenery and costumes by Kasimir Malevich. The ten plates in this portfolio represent Lissitzky's ideas for an incredible collection of mechanical puppets which he designed to perform in the same opera in the future. They are the culmination of the development of the artist's Suprematist ideas which sought their application in architecture, education, theatre and other aspects of everyday life. Their influence was considerable - notably on the production of print portfolios at the Bauhaus in Weimar by such artists as Archipenko, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy.