A Dada soirée bill in black type over orange stripes

Dense display type in many sizes and faces covers the sheet — set straight, on the diagonal, up the left margin and upside down along the top — over broad diagonal bands of orange-red on cream. One word sits boxed inside a black rule. Small drawings interrupt the type: a scribbled burst of flowers, a deer with an arrow beside it, a pointing hand, a dark bird-like silhouette. Every part of the surface carries something; it is a Dada composition as much as an announcement.

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.