About this artwork
Known for his experimental use of typography to create engaging graphic layouts, Wolfgang Weingart has influenced a generation of designers. This collaboration with Chicago-based Philip Burton, one of Weingart’s students, is based on documentation from Weingart’s class at the Basel School of Design and is meant to represent a train journey across the Alps. Weingart’s interest in employing letterforms as both a textual and visual form of communication is evident in the poster’s typographic compositions, such as the staggered city names, which are indicative of the formal nature of mountains, rain, and the sun.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Wolfgang Weingart (Designer)
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Title
- Nr. 5 Typographie als Malerei Poster
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Designed 1974
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Medium
- Offset lithograph on newsprint
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Dimensions
- 88 × 62 cm (34 9/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Philip C. Burton
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Reference Number
- 2014.1192
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