Saul Steinberg: The Americans: Kat. Museum Ludwig Kln (Prinzing Andreas)(Paperback)

The American Way of Life in 1958On eight, free-standing panels with a total length of about seventy meters, Saul Steinberg designed an impressive collage for the American Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels about the American way of life and simply called it The Americans . For the first time, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, will show the entire ensemble once more--supplemented by additional drawings, collages and magazine illustrations.

Saul Steinberg, born in Romania in 1914, died 1999 in New York, began to study architecture in Milan in 1932, and tried to emigrate to the United States in 1941 with a stamp in his passport which he had forged himself, only to be deported to the Dominican Republic. From there, he sent his drawings to the New Yorker, which would finally successfully gain him entry to the United States. The Americans is the highlight
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