Engineer, Agitator, Constructor – MoMA Exhibition Opening

Heinz Loew (German, 1903–1981), Exhibition Stand with Mandatory Viewing Route (Ausstellungsstand mit zwangslaufiger Gehrichtung), 1929.
Gouache, cut-and-pasted printed paper, ink, and pencil on paper,
21 1/2 x 18” (54.6 x 45.7 cm)

This past Sunday, the exhibition Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented – The Merrill C. Berman Collection at MoMA opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. It remains on view until April 10, 2021. For a few key works, please scroll down.

For more information about the exhibition, click here.

Henryk Berlewi (Polish, 1894–1967), Mechano-Facture
(Mechano-Faktura in Polish; Mechano-Faktur in German), 1924.
Gouache on paper, 32 5/8 × 42 7/8″ (82.9 × 108.9 cm)

Hannah Höch (German, 1889–1978), Untitled (Dada), c. 1922.
Cut-and-pasted printed and colored paper on board, 9 3/4 x 13” (24.8 x 33 cm)

Lydia Naumova (Russian, 1902–1986), Posters nos. 5 and 6 from
the series History of the International Trade Union Movement
(Istoriia mizhnarodnoho profruhu), c. 1928.
Both lithograph, both approx. 28 1/8 x 20 3/8″” (71.4 × 51.8 cm)

Nikolai Sedelnikov (Russian, 1905–1994), Designs for journal covers:
Advertising Technique nos. 1 and 2 (Tekhnika reklamy 1), 1930.
Left and right: gelatin silver prints, printed paper, and gouache;
center: gelatin silver print, between 12 1/16 × 9 1/4″ (30.7 × 23.5 cm)
and 9 3/8 × 6 7/8″ (23.8 × 17.4 cm)

For the catalogue, click here.