Heavy navy capitals fill a Hannover exhibition bill

A typographic exhibition poster printed in heavy navy sans-serif capitals on cream paper. Three big words run across the top in a single row, boxed above and below by bold horizontal rules. Four lines of smaller text follow, each opening with a question and answering it, with the headline repeated upside down in the right margin. A large two-part title in blocky capitals fills the lower third, over a thick rule and a line of small printer's credits. Pure lettering, no imagery.

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was a German artist who built an entire practice from what other people threw away. From 1919 he gave the name Merz to his collages and assemblages, composing tram tickets, wrappers, printed scraps and worn paper into taut abstract structures, and extending the idea into poetry, typography and the architectural Merzbau in his Hanover house. Close to Dada without ever formally joining it, he was condemned as degenerate by the Nazi regime and fled in 1937 to Norway and then to Britain, where he died in Kendal. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, Tate and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.