Dear Angela,
"By state prerogative I was appointed chief artist for
the Soviet pavilion at the International Press
Exhibition in Cologne [in 1928]. The foreign press
praised my design as a great achievement of Soviet
culture. For the pavilion I’d designed a photomontage
frieze which was 24 meters long and 3.5 meters wide.
It became the model for all those gigantic montages,
and also a symbol for future exhibitions. I received
great accolades from the state for this work. Another
part of my duties at the time was the artistic and
polygraphic layout of albums, journals etc. "
(El Lissitzky, 1932)
Regards,
R