10 Facts About Gustav Klutsis

Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis was a pioneering Latvian photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century.

Gustav Klutsis is known for the Soviet revolutionary and Stalinist propaganda he produced with his wife Valentina Kulagina and for the development of photomontage techniques.

Gustav Klutsis would continue to be associated with VKhUTEMAS as a professor of color theory from 1924 until the school closed in 1930.

Gustav Klutsis taught, wrote, and produced political art for the Soviet state for the rest of his life.

Gustav Klutsis's sentence was passed by the NKVD Commission and the USSR Prosecutor's Office on 11 February 1938, and he was executed on 26 February 1938, at the Butovo NKVD training ground near Moscow.

Gustav Klutsis was rehabilitated on 25 August 1956 for lack of corpus delicti.

Gustav Klutsis liked to use propaganda as a sign or revolutionary background image.

Gustav Klutsis's first project of note, in 1922, was a series of semi-portable multimedia agitprop kiosks to be installed on the streets of Moscow, integrating "radio-orators", film screens, and newsprint displays, all to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Revolution.

Gustav Klutsis is one of four artists with a claim to having invented the subgenre of political photo montage in 1918.

Gustav Klutsis worked alongside Lissitzky on the Pressa International exhibition in Cologne.