Untitled
1988 · Offset lithograph
Museum of Modern Art
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Carlfriedrich Claus
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Prints: Acquisitions 1977�1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981–1982
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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Carlfriedrich Claus was a German artist and poet who treated language as a material form, merging linguistic and gestural abstraction across drawing, printmaking, and text-based work. Operating primarily in East Germany during the postwar period, he developed a distinctive visual language that investigated communication, consciousness, and the relationship between word and image. His practice positioned text and gesture as equal formal elements rather than subordinate modes.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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