Programme listings in Dutch, German and French collide across the sheet, and the letters D-A-D-A cut through them in red, again and again. Theo van Doesburg (1883 to 1931), a founder of De Stijl, designed it jointly with Kurt Schwitters, the Hanover-based Merz artist, for their 1922 to 1923 Dada Campaign, a tour of Dutch cities with evenings of lectures and sound poetry.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York holds a copy.
On the poster
Words come in from every direction across cream paper: programme listings, names of performers set at every scale, and the four letters D-A-D-A repeated in dense red block type on a diagonal. Small vignettes (a deer, an arrow, a pointing hand) are pressed into whatever space the lettering leaves. There is no hierarchy and no margin. The programme includes van Doesburg's "Dadasofie", Schwitters's abstract poetry, and ragtime music by Erik Satie.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

