An Anna Blume: Visual Communication Projects on Display at Zentrum Paul Klee
Students of the subject area Visual Communication designed posters for the Schwitters exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee, engaging with Schwitters' well-known poem «An Anna Blume».
As part of a cooperation between the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the subject area Visual Communication of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), students have developed typographic posters for the exhibition Schwitters. Grenzgänger der Avantgarde. The starting point for the projects was the well-known poem «An Anna Blume» by Kurt Schwitters which was newly interpreted through design by the students.
Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is among the most significant figures in the international art avantgarde of the interwar period.
The exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee is dedicated to Schwitters' multi-faceted work – from dadaist collages and his reconstructed «Merzbau» to naturalist portraits and landscapes. At the same time, the exhibition highlights his creative power of resistance during exile as well as his role as independent artist and writer between the movements of modernism.
The typographic posters that emerged during this cooperation are part of the exhibition which presents them to a wide audience. The project gave the students the opportunity to engage with Schwitters' poetic and typographic practice in a profound way and to present their works in a museum.
Further information about the exhibition and about the Zentrum Paul Klee can be found here.
