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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ATTRIBUTED TO WALTER DEXEL (1890-1973) NEUE WEGE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE. 1928. Collage maquette. 13 3/4x10 inches, 35x25 1/2 cm. Condition A / A-: creases in corners. Thick paper. A painter, typographer, graphic designer and teacher, Dexel was appointed as the director of the Art Union in Jena, a central German university town. Closely associated with the Bauhaus, he became one of the most prominent practitioners of Contstructivism. In 1935, he lost his position as a graphic design instructor at the Magdeburg Kunstgewerbe Schule, after he was deemed an "entartete" artist by the Nazi regime. Dexel's advertising work is almost strictly typographic, following the principles of the Neue Typographie. This collage, composed of cut out pieces of a flyer for a seminal photography exhibition (see Swann auction #2278, lot 20), has the appearance and size of a catalogue cover design, although it was never realized as such. "Such collages, of cut-up invitation cards, were a cheap alternative for more effective advertising than the small invitation cards, to take into bookstores etc, without having to print posters" (Dexel p. 24). Dexel p. 25, MoMA 664.1999 (var).
