Jean Lurçat 25 booklet and posters
Booklet front page
In the early nineties, Matthias Marx and Paul Ludwig — two pastors from Eppelborn, Saarland — were travelling through France. Accidentaly, in the small town of Angers in the Pays de la Loire, they stumbled upon an exhibition of tapestry master Jean Lurçat. To say they were hooked would be a huge understatement:
Today, twenty-five years later, their hometown hosts a museum dedicated solely to the work of Jean Lurçat. In August 2017, the museum — headed by Matthias Marx — celebrated its silver jubilee.
The bilingual (German/French) publications, designed by Patrick Bittner and Manuel Wesely, use Alverata Irregular by Gerard Unger and then yet unreleased Clip by Bold-Decisions.
Bilingual museum biography, portrait of Jean Lurçat by André Kertesz
Booklet folded out
The backside of the booklet printing sheet — a poster with closeups of Lurçat’s tapestries, all to be seen live in the Museum Jean Lurçat
Closeup of my two favourite tapestries — left Die vier Elemente (1961) and right Schwarze Wunder (1957)
The A1 celebration poster, with two A3 designs on the bottom and one A2 design on the top
