Ernst-Johann Nicholas Ernestovich Lissner (1874–1941) was a Russian painter and graphic artist, owner of a private art studio and the printing press "E. Lissner and J. Roman" in Moscow.
His father owned a well-known printing house on the Arbat, in which prestigious orders were executed.
Between 1900 and 1908 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg.
After the October Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War, Lissner continued to work as painter, and also actively took part in the turbulent social and artistic life of the first decade of the Soviet Union.
In the 1920s he became a member of Moscow groups and associations of soviet artists, such as Art to working people (1925–1928), Wing (1926–1928), and the Repin Society of painters (1924–1929).