Bode, Arnold - 1959 - II. documenta

Bode, Arnold Atelier
born 1900 in Kassel, died 1977

Kassel
poster of the exhibition II. documenta
1959 ( july 11 - october 11 )
design by the Arnold Bode atelier

Motifs:
Joan Mirò, Petit Chat au Claire de Lune, Lithographie, 1951 (Druckgrafik)
Henry Moore, Draped Reclining Woman, Bronze, 1957 (Skulptur)
Alberto Burri, Sacco e Nero, 1955 (Malerei)

colour offset / letterpress printing
84 cm x 60 cm
traces of age, several small tears at the borders, strong colours, regarding the age generally in good condition
(see additional pictures)

 

order no. 20882

 

 

 

Lit.:

II documenta 1959, Kunst nach 1945, Katalog in 3 Bänden ( Bd. 1: Malerei, Bd. 2: Skulptur, Bd. 3: Druckgrafik) with articles by Werner Haftmann, Eduard Trier, Albrecht Fabri, Erhart Kästner und Heinrich Stünke

Ruby, Sigrid: "Have We An American Art?" Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachkriegszeit, Weimar 1999, p.406 ff.

See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016, p. 136 f.

Gross, Raphael et.al. (ed.): documenta. Politik und Kunst. exhibition cat. of the Historisches Museum Berlin, 2021

Fine description of the poster in Lukatis, Christiane u.a.: Plakat Kunst Kassel, Austellungskat. Neue Galerie Kassel 2016,  p.33 f.