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Vormgeving: Jelle Jespers
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Our new catalog is online!
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The paper edition is free available in our store and at our fair stands in Brussels and Amsterdam.
Graphic design: Jelle Jespers
Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair
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28 september: 11:00 – 17:00
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Catalogue highlight:
Til Brugman. Klankzin (Sound sense).
Small archive of the so called ‘Klankgedichten’ (sound poems) by Dutch author Til Brugman (1888-1958); thirty poems in original typoscript, of which three signed (one dated 1919), an original maquette by German artist and graphic designer Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899-1962); a member of ‘De Stijl’, and some graphic interpretations of Brugman’s poems by Hungarian Bauhaus artist Andor Weininger (1899-1986) and Dutch graphic designer Tom de Heus (1921-1985).
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. Maquette Klankzin. 1945 Six pages mounted on a purple cover page. 26:19,5 with colorful accents in paper and ink. On some pages the text is presented in an abstraction. It includes a handwritten clarification (dated 1979) by the Dutch artist and writer L.P.J. Braat (1908-1982) on the cover of the maquette. Braat states that Andor Weininger created graphic design for Klankzin while living with Til Brugman and her partner in Amsterdam in the early 1950’s. (see further)
Four pages of poems by Til Brugman, typographic design by Andor Weininger. (19,5:14,5 cm.) and one page with studies for the poem ‘Geel’ (yellow).
Eight pages poems by Til Brugman typographic designed by Tom de Heus, proofs in two colours. (early 1950’s?)
Brugman was in close contact with a significant number of international avant-garde artists, among them Theo van Doesburg, Hannah Höch (with whom she had a nine-year relationship and shared a home in Berlin), Huszár, Lissitzky, Piet Mondriaan, and Kurt Schwitters.
Most of Til Brugman’s poetry is considered lost. Only a few of her ‘klankgedichten’ have survived, the best known of which were published in 1923 in the magazines ‘De Stijl’ (titled ‘R’) and ‘Merz’ (titled ‘Weg’).
Brugman wrote her ‘Klankgedichten’ mainly between 1917 and 1922, intending to publish a selection under the title Klankzin. However, a series of setbacks meant that the book was never realised. This small archive proves that the author worked on it throughout the years.
At the request of the curators of the De Stijl exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1952, Brugman loaned her sound poems for exhibition. It is not known what exactly was on loan, but it is assumed that it contained the complete Klankzin manuscript. Unfortunately the piece was lost and never returned to Brugman. Could the compilation we offer here be the missing piece?
Provenance: collection L.P.J. Braat.
This early typewriter poetry archive reveals many connections and opens up further research possibilities.