El Lissitzky is one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Russian avant-garde. Between 1919 and 1925, influenced by fellow artist Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), Lissitzky produced paintings, drawings and reliefs which he called “Proun”, a term based on the name of a Russian project for the affirmation of new art.
Lissitzky arrived in Berlin in late 1921. By spring 1922 his radical geometric compositions were being shown in Germany for the first time by the Novembergruppe (“November Group”). The Proun Room reconstructed here was made for the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1923.