Gustav’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Worker Men and Women: Everyone Vote in the Soviet Elections (Raboche i rabotnitsy: vse na perevybory sovetov)
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Screen-Platform-Kiosk for the Fifth Anniversary of the Great October Revolution (Ekran-tribuna-kiosk k 5-i godovshchine Oktiabrskoi revoliutsii)
Gustav Klutsis (Latvian, 1895-1938) intended for an essay by Boris Arvatov (Russian, born Wylkowyszki, Poland [now Vilkaviskis, Lithuania] 1896–1940)

Construction
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Lenin's Language: Eleven Devices of Lenin's Speech (Iazyk Lenina. Odinadtsat' priemov Leninskoi rechi)
Gustav Klutsis (Latvian, 1895-1938) Valentina Kulagina (Russian, 1902–1987)

Kruchenikh Lives!: A Collection of Essays (Zhiv Kruchenykh!: Sbornik statei)
Gustav Klutsis (Latvian, 1895-1938) and Ivan Kliun (Russian, 1873–1943) essays by Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886–1968) contributions by Boris Pasternak (Russian, 1890–1960), Sergei Tretyakov (Russian, 1892–1937), David Burlyuk (American, born Ukraine, 1882–1967), Tatyana Vechkora, and Sergei Rafalovich (Russian, born 1875) published by Izd. Vseros soiuza poetov (Russian, 20th century)

Under the Sign of the Komsomol
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

From NEP Russia Will Come Socialist Russia (“Iz Rossii nepovskoi budet Rossiia sotsialisticheskogo” (Lenin))
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Installation for the Fourth Comintern Congress (Ustanovka k 4-omu kongressu Kominterna)
Gustav Klutsis (Latvian, 1895-1938) intended for an essay by Boris Arvatov (Russian, born Wylkowyszki, Poland [now Vilkaviskis, Lithuania] 1896–1940)

In the Storm of the Third Year of the Five Year Plan (Na shturm 3go goda piatiletka)
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Building Socialism Under the Banner of Lenin (Pod znamenem Lenina, za sotsialisticheskoe stroitel’st)
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938
![Under Threat by Them Were Built...We Struggled for 15 Years...Long Live the Socialist Enterprise of the USSR [Pod ugrozoj imi 15 let stroilis' my borolis' da zdravstvuet socialisticheskoe delo SSSR]](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/97151947-83f9-cba6-1aa1-a2826bc89454/full/400,/0/default.jpg)
Under Threat by Them Were Built...We Struggled for 15 Years...Long Live the Socialist Enterprise of the USSR [Pod ugrozoj imi 15 let stroilis' my borolis' da zdravstvuet socialisticheskoe delo SSSR]
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Stroitel’stvo Moskvy (The Building of Moscow)
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895–1938

We Shall Fulfill the Country's Coal Demands (Vernem ugol’nyi dolg strane)
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938

We Shall Fulfill the Country's Coal Debt (Vernem ugol’nyi dolg strane)
Gustav Klutsis Latvian, 1895-1938