Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration

Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters IllustrationPlate 7 closes the Merz 3 lithograph series with a composition of considered restraint angular forms hold against soft ground, and the interplay of positive and negative space gives the work an open, almost meditative quality. Where earlier plates in the series lean toward visual density, Pl7 breathes. It is a fitting end to a portfolio that mapped the full range of Schwitters' graphic imagination, from accumulation to economy, within the Merz

from the gilt-edged roundel to the careful interplay of warm and cool tones

A restless traveller

Produced in our Berlin studio as an archival fine art print

divorced from scale and context

rendered in the cool

almost windswept arrangement of its petals

primary-adjacent colour fields

counterpoint

green and blue build a sense of depth without relying on fine detail

There is a hand-made quality to the linework that grounds the image in the tactile

The fine art print preserves the quiet precision of the original's woodblock aesthetic

The composition is spare yet alive