83 - Bauhaus - Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz. Book cover. Stencil-printed design in gray and black. Circa 1925.

Bauhaus - Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz. Book cover. Stencil-printed design in gray and black. Circa 1925. Auction start time: approx. 12:47 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) Half-linen blind-stitched binding with approximately 100 blank sheets. — Both covers feature gray-and-black patterned cover paper, designed and/or executed by Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz. - The designer and artist, originally from Kiel, had initially studied at the renowned Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trade, where she became acquainted with, among other things, Tschichold’s views on modern typography. As early as 1920, she received an award for a poster design. - Inspired by the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, she studied for two semesters in Dessau under Moholy-Nagy, where she met Herbert Bayer; after the Bauhaus closed, she arranged for both of them to work as graphic designers on the redesign of the magazine “die neue linie,” for which she had been the “art director” since 1929. - Acquired from the artist’s estate; has been in a private collection in Hesse ever since. Illustrated in: From the Bauhaus to Informel. Weimar, Kunsthalle 2009, p. 40, cat. no. 25