Original graphic "Please" (Bauhaus today: 8/10 Aphorisms with original factory lettering design; screen printing poster)

100% handcrafted prints, who following drew & painted designs
Please; Lyrics: Torsten Schmidt, Graphics: Hagen Stüdemann

You're welcome

leave me
i don't know why

You know


Admittedly, the text is difficult to read in this typographical implementation. But it's a poster, a graphic for the room. Not strikingly, but as an invitation for the eyes to linger, to puzzle, in order to always bring joy to the text, which does not give itself a price on superficial consideration. This credo applies to most typographic posters in this cycle. The texts are by the poet and friend Torsten Schmidt. He is the only poet besides Tomas Tranströmer, for whose poems Stüdemann can always be inspired, because they can describe such an incredibly precise vague but intensely lived feeling, in a concise and logical form, in beauty and paradoxically also in enigmatic language.

Stüdemann received a stack of new poems from time to time from his writing friend. Of these, he chose some who were particularly close to him and inspired him to a graphic equivalent. With two posters, the path was exactly the other way around.
The drawing formed the basis for a text that followed ("Our Hearts", "The Crows"). Ten designs for the planned screen printing edition were authorized by the poet. The printer and workshop master of the FAK Heiligendamm Olaf Anders supported the young graduate Hagen Stüdemann a second time by implementing this project. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you once again.


Title: Please, Artist: Hagen Stüdemann
Format: 84 x 61.5 cm, Year: 1997,
limited edition of 10 sheets made of acid-free cardboard
all copies are signed, numbered, and titled
Unframed
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In contrast to the later working methods, the early works (approximately until 1998) were printed with exposed sevens. The necessary films were made of black paper cut paper on transparent paper factory, cut and glued by Stüdemann. The printer thus prepared the screens by exposure, followed by the washing out of the unexposed passages (surfaces covered by the positive film described above and do not harden during exposure).