Karl Gerstner: Opjekte
1966 · Photolithograph
33 3/4 x 23 1/8" (85.8 x 58.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Karl Gerstner
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Mixed Media
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10
Works in Collection
32
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Posters from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Designing Programs/Programming Designs: An Exhibition of Karl Gerstner
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879�1967
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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The Responsive Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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The Photographic Poster
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Karl Gerstner was a Swiss graphic designer, typographer, and visual artist who developed systematic approaches to color, form, and typography in the postwar period. Working across print design, corporate identity, and concrete art, he created modular systems that treated design as a problem-solving discipline rather than an aesthetic exercise. His work bridged Swiss modernism and algorithmic thinking, establishing principles that influenced generations of designers and artists concerned with rational order and visual logic.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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