Plate 6 from the Merz 3 portfolio shows Schwitters exploring tension between legibility and abstraction. Typographic remnants are broken apart and redistributed across the picture plane, their original meaning dissolved into pure visual form. The composition feels simultaneously fragile and assured — light in touch but precise in its internal logic. As a lithograph from this pivotal Merz publication, it documents a moment when Schwitters was synthesising collage, print and language into a singular artistic language.

Available as an archival fine art print from our Berlin studio — each line, letterform and tonal field reproduced with sharp clarity on museum-grade paper.