Munsing, Stefan P. - 1950 - Haus der Kunst München (die Maler am Bauhaus)

Munsing, Stefan P.

born 1915 in USA - Missouri, died 1994 in Washington D.C.

Haus der Kunst München

poster for the exhibition : die Maler am Bauhaus

1950

original design

colour silkscreen on thin paper

80 cm x 59 cm

traces of age, needle holes and paper losses at the corners, was folded (see additional pictures)

order no. 25098

 Munsing "designed many exhibition posters and catalogues which modern layout attracted much attention" (Lauterbach, 2015, S.203). Works by the following artists have been shown in the exhibtion:  Kandinsky, Feininger, Klee, Albers, Bayer, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Marcks.

Lit.:
Krause, Jürgen (ed.): Die nützliche Moderne. Graphik und Produkt-Design in Deutschland 1935-1955. Catalogue Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster 2000, p.194
Lauterbach, Iris: Der Central Collecting Point in München. Kunstschutz, Restitution, Neubeginn. Berlin, München 2015,  p. 199 ff.
See also our catalogue  "From Arp to Pollock: Art and Exhibition Posters in France and Germany 1945-1960", Cologne 2016, p. 104 f.