 In 1921 , roughly concurrent with the demise of UNOVIS , suprematism was beginning to fracture into two ideologically adverse halves , one favoring Utopian , spiritual art and the other a more utilitarian art that served society . Lissitzky was fully aligned with neither and left Vitebsk in 1921 . He took a job as a cultural representative of Russia and moved to Berlin where he was to establish contacts between Russian and German artists . There he also took up work as a writer and designer for international magazines and journals while helping to promote the avant @-@ garde through various gallery shows . He started the very short @-@ lived but impressive periodical Veshch @-@ Gegenstand Objekt with Russian @-@ Jewish writer Ilya Ehrenburg . This was intended to display contemporary Russian art to Western Europe . It was a wide @-@ ranging pan @-@ arts publication , mainly focusing on new suprematist and constructivist works , and was published in German , French and Russian . In the first issue , Lissitzky wrote : 
