Vladimir Fedorovich Shtranikh

E.Rudenko, Konstruktivizm Vladimira Shtranikha, Moscow, 2011, p.25 and 27, illustrated

The sheet is comprised of several smaller elements cut out in smaller pieces of paper. There are some light abrasion marks around the edges, especially to the left side. There are flecks of paint loss to the red letters in the upper part of the sheet. The sheet is sound. There are rubbings to the upper left corner and edge. There are flecks of paint loss in places e.g. to the blue pigment in the composition and the colour ochre to the lower right corner. There are light scratches to the lower left quadrant. Both held in a modern wooden frame under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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The late 1920s and early 1930s were a golden age for printed Soviet graphic art, marking a period when Constructivism finally became self-aware as propaganda art. A contemporary of El Lissitsky (1890-1941) and Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956), Vladimir Shtranikh was a prominent graphic artist whose dynamic posters, book and magazine covers and newspaper designs are superb representations of the genre.  Za Industrializatsiyu was the official newspaper of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.