Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Bauten in Deutschland & Amerika
Hille
Nationality unknown
1960s
A printed exhibition poster produced by offset lithography that promotes a show of buildings by Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, using a stark photographic treatment and minimalist typography to announce modernist architecture.
You first notice a ghostly, vertical photograph of a cylindrical high‑rise reduced to rhythmic light and dark on the left, counterbalanced by airy, geometric sans‑serif names and a slanted, handwritten band across a deep black field on the right, creating a lively tension between image and text.
The poster translates the principles of the International Style into graphic form—photographic abstraction, asymmetrical composition, and typographic clarity—helping to publicize and codify modernist architecture in mid‑20th‑century Germany and America.
Medium
Offset lithography
Dimensions
23 1/8 x 16 1/4" (58.7 x 41.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Bequest of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Accession
674.1980
Palette
Art Terms
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