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Aleksei Gan

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PaintingGeometric AbstractionConstructivism

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• Geometric Abstraction
• Constructivism

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Aleksei Gan was a Russian graphic designer and typographer whose work anchored early Soviet Constructivism through geometric abstraction and industrial visual language. Active from the 1910s, he applied modernist principles to book design, posters, and typographic systems, treating legibility and functional clarity as radical acts within revolutionary culture. His practice merged graphic design with theoretical writing, establishing typographic systems that prioritized legibility as an ideological stance.

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Geometric Abstraction

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Painting

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (22)

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Za rulem. Dvukhnedel'nyi zhurnal vserossiiskogo obshchestva "Avtodor" (At the Wheel: Fortnightly Magazine of the All-Russian Avtodor Society), nos. 4 and 15

1930

9 3/4 x 6 15/16" (24.8 x 17.7 cm) (approx.)

Museum of Modern Art

SA. Sovremennaia Arkhitektura (CA. Contemporary Architecture), no. 3

1928 · Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 11 15/16 × 9" (30.3 × 22.9 cm); overall (closed): 11 15/16 × 9 × 1/16" (30.3 × 22.9 × 0.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

SA. Sovremennaia Arkhitektura (CA. Contemporary Architecture), no. 5

1928 · Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 11 13/16 × 9 1/16" (30 × 23 cm); overall (closed): 11 13/16 × 9 1/16 × 1/8" (30 × 23 × 0.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

SA. Sovremennaia Arkhitektura (CA. Contemporary Architecture), no. 4

1928 · Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 11 15/16 × 9" (30.3 × 22.9 cm); overall (closed): 11 15/16 × 9 × 1/16" (30.3 × 22.9 × 0.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

SA. Sovremennaia Arkhitektura (CA. Contemporary Architecture), no. 6

1928 · Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 12 1/16 × 9 1/16" (30.6 × 23 cm); overall (closed): 12 1/16 × 9 1/16 × 1/16" (30.6 × 23 × 0.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

SA. Sovremennaia Arkhitektura (CA. Contemporary Architecture), no. 2

1928 · Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 12 × 9 3/16" (30.5 × 23.3 cm); overall (closed): 12 × 9 1/4 × 1/8" (30.5 × 23.5 × 0.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

First Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture

1928 · Letterpress

42 1/4 x 27 3/4" (107.3 x 70.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Poster for First Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture (Pervaia vystavka sovremennoi arkhitektury), VKhUTEMAS (Vysshie khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskie masterskie [Higher state artistic and technical studios]), Moscow

1927 · Letterpress

42 1/2 × 27 3/4" (108 × 70.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

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Geometric Abstraction

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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