Katalog der ... Ausstellung
An 1901 exhibition catalogue published in Vienna by the Künstlerbund Hagen, a German-language artists' society, for visitors to its show of decorative and applied art. Its pictures are black-and-white line drawings and type-based printed plates: a double-headed eagle heraldic emblem repeated in several variants, a dense ornamental title page with a Vienna address, and a bold blocky sans-serif poster-style block of text framed by a checkerboard border. A designer might take the stark eagle emblems as a model for symmetrical heraldic device work and the condensed stacked lettering and checkerboard frame as a reference for early modernist Viennese typography.
