Max Burchartz
Germany (1887—1961)
Following WWI (which forced him to interrupt his studies at the Akademie Der Künste in Düsseldorf), Burchartz got close to the Bauhaus school but soon moved away from its principles, favouring De Stijl and Constructivism. He quitted paintings and followed the Neue Gestaltung in typography and graphic design. He founded his own advertising agency in Bochum and in 1924 he opened a new one with Johannes Canis while collaborating with German manufacturer Wehag for the design of the lever handle, which became a symbol of the Modernist movement in design. He was also Professor of the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung in Essen, where he taught until 1955.
Arts et métiers graphiques 16
Photographie / Magazine / 24 x 30.9 cm / Paris, 1930 / © 1930, Arts et Métiers Graphiques Paris
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Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Lucia Moholy / Gerrit Rietveld / Paul Schuitema / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Martin Munkácsi / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
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Internationale revue / Magazine / Letterpress / 21 x 30 cm / Amsterdam, 1927-1929
Andreas Feininger / John Heartfield / Lucia Moholy / Walter Peterhans / Franz Roh / Jan Tschichold / Umbo (Otto Umbehr) / Piet Zwart / Eugène Atget / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Hans Finsler / Arvid Gutschow / Brett Weston / Max Ernst / Florence Henri / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / László Moholy-Nagy / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
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76 Fotos der Zeit / Photographic book with letterpress cover by El Lissitzky / Heliogravure / 20.6 x 29.2 cm / Stuttgart, 1929 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn