M.S.A. mezinarodni soudoba architektura
sbornik 1. jaro 1929
Redaction, typographic and graphic design lyout Karel Teige.
Praha, Odeon, 1929.
4°, 176 pp. Contemporary full-cloth binding.
Convolut:
M.S.A. mezinarodni soudoba architektura
sbornik 2. jaro 1930
TEIGE, Karel: MODERNI ARCHITEKTURA V CESKOSLOVENSKU.
Redaction, typographic and graphic design Karel Teige.
Praha, Odeon, 1930.
Pp. 295.
Convolut:
M.S.A. mezinárodni soudoba architektura
sbornik 3. jaro 1931
HAVLICEK, Josef - HONZIK, Karel: STAVBY A PLANY.
Redaction, epilogue, typographic and graphic design Karel Teige.
Praha, Odeon, 1931.
Pp. 148.
MSA is the important publication of the Czech and international avantgarde edited and designed under the influence of the school Bauhaus. MSA 1 contains writings by Teige, Mies, Loos, Mart Stam, Le Corbusier, Ginsberg, and others, and pictorial documenta- tion of buildings designed by the aforementioned and Krejcar, Molnar, Koula, Bohuslav Fuchs, Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Rietveld, Lurcat, Leonidov, Lissitzky, Golosov, Vesnin, etc. MSA 2 contains a number of photographic images of examples of modern Czech architecture, schematic plans and projects, MSA 3 photographic and schematic representations of realizations, designs and plans of architects Havlicek and Honzik.
The anonymous creator of the binding was inspired by Karel Teige's typographic and graphic editing. Color, font, noble simplicity, information value, quality materials and functionality form a unique artifact.
Binding is intact. Wrappers are not bound, book block without signs of use.
<ID:VUU32507> Price: 22.000,- CZK

Karel Teige (December 13, 1900, Praha, Austria-Hungary - October 1, 1951, Praha, Czechoslovakia)
Czech theoretician of art and architecture, journalist, critic, editor and an active contributor to the social life. The author of collages, a theoretical pioneer of new typography and an active typographer who has designed a number of books, magazines, ... His technique of connecting a book cover and a collage deserves special attention. Teige's extensive typographic work, comprising several hundred items, makes a vital contribution to European interwar and, in the short term, the post-war book culture. Already in his time, Karel Teige was a respected personality who presented his typographic work all over the world.
Study: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Art History and Aesthetics, Praha.
Membership: Leading figure of the avant-garde artists’ association Devetsil (1920) and since 1934 led the Prague Surrealist Group, 1930 Left Front.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1966, Karel Teige: Surrealisticke kolaze 1935-1951, Dum umeni mesta Brna, Graficky kabinet; 1967, Analyticka expozice vytvarne cinnosti Karla Teigeho z let 1916-1951, Dum panu z Kunstatu, Brno; 2001, Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde, Grey Art Museum, New York City; 2009, Karel Teige: Asymetrická harmonie / Asymetrical Harmony, Muzeum umeni Olomouc.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 1923, Bazar moderniho umeni, Dum umelcu, Praha; 1927, Vystava moderneho umeleckeho priemyslu v Bratislave, Pavilon Umeleckej besedy slovenskej; 1964, Imaginativni malirstvi 1930 - 1950, Alsova jihoceska galerie v Hluboke nad Vltavou; 1967, Karel Teige, Jozef Jankovic, Wiener Secession, Wien; 1968 Il collage nell´arte ceca moderna, Galleria ferro di cavalo, Roma; 1969, 50 Jahre der Tschechischen angewandten Kunst und industrial design, MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien; 1972, Konstruktivismus - Entwicklungen und Tendenzen seit 1913, Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln; 1983, Dessins tcheques du 20e siecle, Centre Pompidou, Paris; 1988-89, Tschechische Kunst der 20er und 30er Jahre: Avantgarde und Tradition, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt; 1989, Devetsil, A 20-as evek Cseh avantgardja, Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest; 1993, El Arte de la Vanguardia en Checoslovaquia 1918 - 1938: The Art of the Avant-garde in Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1938, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzáles, Valencia; 2011-12 New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; 2014, The Czech Avant-Garde Book, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Art Institute Chicago, Illinois.