Wendingen [“The Turn” - architectural journal]. Volume 4, No. 11. Special issue devoted to the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. Text in Dutch. Designed and edited by Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld

(LISSITZKY, ELIEZER)

De Hooge Brug Sanpoort

Amsterdam

1921-2

Cover designed and initialled in the plate by lissitzky. Numberous photographic plate illutrations of Wright’s buildings. DELUXE HARD-COVER COPY.

Busch-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky (1987) no. 1922/15; Lissitzky-Küppers, El Lissitzy: Life Letters Texts (1980), pl. 70; Museum of Modern Art Catalogue , The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 (2002) no. 346, p.196 (illustrated)

Lissitzky’s cover is a Prouns design: a composition with several geometrical elements, both two and three dimensional, dispersed across an uninflected ground, in a manner that defies expectations of normal spatial relationships. The quasi-architectural elements of the Prouns makes it a highly appropriate design insignia for this innovative and progressive architectural journal. The Dutch artist Peter Alma, who was greatly influnced by Lissitzsy and the Russian Constructivist School was probably the link between Lissitzky and the magazine. Wendingen, published by the Amsterdam Society of Architects was published from 1918 to 1931 (116 issues), and was devoted to architecture, construction and ornamentation