Klutsis Gustav Gustavovich (Latvian. Gustavs Klucis, January 4, 1895, Ruyiena - February 26, 1938, Butovo training ground, Moscow region) - avant-garde artist, representative of constructivism, one of the creators of the art of color photomontage. A great associate of Rodchenko, an outstanding figure of Russian constructivism.
Gustav Klutsis was born on January 4, 1895 in the König parish of the Valmiera district. From 1911-1915 he studied at the Valmiera Art School and the Riga City Art School. His teachers were J. Rosenthal, V. Purvitis and J. R. Tillbergs.
In 1915-1918 he continued his education in Petrograd at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, and then (1918-1920) at the State Free Art Studios under K.A.Korovin, A.A.Pevzner and K.S. Malevich, then in Moscow branch of VKHUTEMAS 1920-1921.
Collaborated with the Institute of Artistic Culture ("Inkhuk"), with the literary and artistic association "Left Front of the Arts" (LEF), with the society "Approvers of the New Art" (Unovis). Was one of the founders of the "October" association (1928). He taught at Vkhutemas (1924-1930).
Among his most famous works are The Red Man (1918), The Dynamic City (1919), Axonometric Painting (1920), Let′s Fulfill the Plan of Great Works (1930) [10], The USSR - the shock brigade of the proletariat of all the world "(1931).
On January 17, 1938, Gustav Klutsis was arrested on trumped-up charges of participating in a “fascist conspiracy of Latvian nationalists” (he was credited with membership in an “armed Latvian terrorist organization”) and shot five weeks later. In 1956 he was posthumously rehabilitated.