PP 452 | Poster Plakat

The reality of our program is real people. It is we who are with you. --Stalin. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 452

**Category:** Stalin

**Poster Notes:** Bottom margin is cut; woman with bandana (front row, left of Stalin) is Valentina Kulagina, wife of Klutsis.

**Media Size:** 57.5x41.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1931

**Sources & Citation:** Tupitsyn, M. (2004). *Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina: Photography and montage after constructivism*. Göttingen: Steidl. (Poster seen on p. 162)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 452 Stalin (oversized)

Artist: Klutsis, Gustav Gustavovich (Klucis, Gustavs) — Клуцис, Густав Густавович

Gustav Klutsis is considered the foremost artist of Soviet photomontage. Born in the Russian Empire near the town of modern-day Ruiena, Latvia, Klutsis attended the State Art School in Riga from 1913 to 1915 and then moved to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) prior to the October Revolution. During the revolution, he joined a volunteer rifle regiment that helped overturn the Tsarist regime. After the revolution, the artist continued his studies at OPKh (Imperial Society for the Encouragement of ...

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Publisher: IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Moscow-Leningrad — Изогиз (Государственное издательство изобразительного искусства), Москва-Ленинград

The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...

The reality of our program is real people. It is we who are with you. --Stalin. [Partial translation]