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[Composition with Blocks of Type]
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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- 1931
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 59049a40-6dbb-446b-ba87-995f73dc663b
Composition made up of blocks of type in various sizes.
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