Ekran Screen #19 1925

Original vintage constructivist magazine Ekran, issue number 19, August 1925. The ‘working newspaper’. Weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The cover features the drawing Nizhny Novgorod Fair. Porters and Persian merchants in front of the main house by the artist K.G. The back cover features the advertising of the publishing house Lengiz of textbooks and scientific literature. The issue includes articles about the successes of the Italo-Soviet trade; the murder of Kotovsky, a Soviet military and political activist, and a participant in the Russian Civil War; an excerpt from the novel by Hans Dominik, a German science fiction and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer with drawings by the artist K. Golstei; photographs illustrating the news of the week, such as the arrival of French and Belgian teachers in Moscow, the celebration of the Weimar Constitution, the Chinese delegation of the postal congress in Paris, a story about the Bulgarian uprising with illustrations by K. Homze and others. Published by Glavlit, 17 pages. Fair condition, tears of the front cover, browning.