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[Door Frame and Light Bulb Abstraction]
Creator
Piet ZwartDutch Photographer · 1885–1977
All works by this person →Describing himself as a "typotekt" for his training as an architect and his work as a typographer, Piet Zwart also worked as a graphic designer and photomontagist. Beginning in 1911, he designed furniture and interiors, exhibiting his designs in Holland. Through artist Kurt Schwitters, Zwart met El Lissitzky, whose ideas about design and form paralleled Zwart's own. Zwart began to make photographs
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- November 1930
- Medium
- Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 52e0dff6-3dd7-4f7d-bc02-8edc7b6714ef
An abstract composition featuring a close-up of a lightbulb and what appears to be an etching or engraving machine.
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