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Known as the father of Soviet photomontage, Gustav Klutsis (1895-1938) was one of the most influential photographers and revolutionaries of the Soviet era and a key figure of Constructivist art.

Born in Latvia, Klutsis wad drafted into the Russian army in 1915 and participated in the overthrow of the Tsar two years later. At the age of twenty-two, he moved to Moscow and began his studies at the state-run art and technical school VKhuTEMAS under Kazimir Malevich and Antoine Pevsner.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Klutsis, alongside his wife and collaborator Valentina Kulagina, worked as an artist for the Soviet State, producing photomontages, collages, posters, and books, and breaking new ground in the fields of typography, design, and color theory.

His work was exhibited internationally at the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 and at the Soviet Pavilion of the Pressa Exhibition in Cologne in 1928. The extraordinary range of his w