
Catalogue
- Year
- 1924
- Medium
- Letterpress
- Dimensions
- 13 1/2 × 9 3/4" (34.3 × 24.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Mieczysław Szczuka
Artist
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Mieczysław Szczuka
Mieczysław Szczuka was a Polish graphic designer and typographer whose radical modernist approach emerged from the Polish avant-garde in the 1920s. Working primarily in typography, photomontage, and graphic design, he synthesized Constructivist principles with a distinctly Polish sensibility during the interwar period. His practice encompassed poster design, book covers, and experimental layouts that rejected ornament in favor of geometric precision and bold sans-serif letterforms. Szczuka died in 1927 at age 29, leaving a compact but influential body of work that shaped Polish graphic modernism.
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- Mieczysław Szczuka
- Year
- 1924
- Medium
- Letterpress
- Dimensions
- 13 1/2 × 9 3/4" (34.3 × 24.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1924-M118284
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified