Education
Her work as a designer began before she graduated the school, with the Soviet Pavilion at the Pressa exhibition in Cologne including areas which she designed.
Her work as a designer began before she graduated the school, with the Soviet Pavilion at the Pressa exhibition in Cologne including areas which she designed.
She is known for the Soviet revolutionary and Stalinist propaganda she produced in collaboration with Klutis. On February 2, 1921, the couple wed and lived together at the school"s headquarters. In 1930 she designed a poster for International ing Women"s Day, employing avant-garde techniques, typography, lithography, and photomontage.
Later, she worked for IZOGIZ (the State Art Publishing Agency) and VOKS (the All-Union Society of Cultural Relations with Abroad) and VSKhV (The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition).
Klutsis" and Kulagina"s work was complementary, and their style of photomontage combined with graphic work saw them implemented as official revolutionary poster producers for the Communist Party under Stalin. On January 17, 1938, Klutsis was arrested as he prepared to leave for the New York World"s Fair.
In 1989, two years after her death in Moscow, it was discovered that he had been executed by order of Stalin, very soon after his arrest.