84 - Bauhaus - Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz. Bode Gymnastics. Charlotte Selver-Wittgenstein. Small poster. Two-color letterpress and plate printing. 1926. 24.7 × 31.7 cm.

Bauhaus - Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz. Bode Gymnastics. Charlotte Selver-Wittgenstein. Small poster. Two-color letterpress and plate printing. 1926. 24.7 × 31.7 cm. Announcement time: approx. 12:48 (schedule subject to change) Promotional material designed entirely in accordance with Bauhaus principles, printed in red and black on sturdy cardboard. – Signed “söre” in the lower right corner, the artist name of the young type designer. - 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 won a prize 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.” - Acquired from the artist’s estate; has since been in a private collection in Hesse. Illustrated in: Bauhaus Saxony, Leipzig Grassi Museum 2019, fig. 231 on p. 331