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Constructivism Beyond the Cinema · Books, Goods, and the Argument
Without Heavy Industry We Cannot Build Any Industry, Poster by Gustav Klutsis, 1930
Gustav Klutsis (1895-1938) · Soviet Five-Year Plan poster, 1930
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A 1930 poster by Gustav Klutsis. A green blast-furnace stack rises through a red ground; the headline reads: without heavy industry we cannot build any industry. Figures for the first year of the Five-Year Plan, 1929-30, are set among the photographs, and a strip of foundry workers runs along the foot.
Why it matters
Klutsis was a Latvian of the Constructivist avant-garde who built his posters from photomontage. He was killed in the Great Terror in 1938.
What to notice
The statistics are part of the picture: investment totals and percentages set as type on the steel.
The Five-Year Plan as a column of figures and iron.
Provenance
- School
- Soviet Constructivism (USSR)
- Designer
- Gustav Klutsis (1895-1938)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Soviet Five-Year Plan poster, 1930
- Source
- Basel Poster Collection (Plakatsammlung) · CH-000957-X-9967
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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