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ID: 500125956
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Record Type: Person
Rossman, Zdeněk (Czech typographer and architect, 1905-1984)

Note: Studied at the Technical University in Brno 1924-1927, and the Dessau Bauhaus, 1929-1930. He was a member of the Brno section of Devétsil. He experimented with typographic picture-poems, and is known for using all lower-case lettering in his book designs. After 1930 he incorporates photomontage into his work and uses typographic forms in color combined with black and white photography. During this period he also worked as a scenographer.

Names:
Rossman, Zdeněk (preferred,V,index)
Zdeněk Rossman (V,display)
Rossman, Zdenek (V)

Nationalities:
Czech (preferred)

Roles:
architect (preferred)
artist
typographer
scenographer
theorist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Ostrava (Moravskoslezský Kraj, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)
Died:  Prague (Praha, Hlavní Město, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member of ....  Devětsil  1923-1931
................  (Czech avant-garde group, active 1920-1931) [500125065]
student at (person to institution) ....  Bauhaus  
............................................................  (German art school, 1919-1933) [500125058]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Rossman, Zdeněk (I)

Biographies:
(Czech typographer and architect, 1905-1984) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Czech architect, theorist, and designer, 1905-1984) ..... [VP]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Rossman, Zdeněk ........ [VP Preferred]
................................  Dluhosch and Švácha, Karel Teige (1999) 38
................................  Prague: 1900-1938 (1997) 221
................................  Šmejkal and Svácha, Devětsil (1990)
Rossman, Zdenek ........ [VP]
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Zdeněk Rossman ........ [VP]
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [VP]
....................  Dluhosch and Švácha, Karel Teige (1999) 38
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Prague: 1900-1938 (1997) 302; 221
....................  Šmejkal and Svácha, Devětsil (1990)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Prague: 1900-1938 (1997) 302
.......... Šmejkal and Svácha, Devětsil (1990)
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