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  • 1937
  • Zero (Hans Schleger), 1898 - 1976
  • 16 x 12 inches ~ (40 x 30 cm)
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    <br<Rare prewar poster by the great graphic designer Zero. Born in Kempen, Prussia to Jewish parents, Schlesinger shortened his surname to Schleger when he was twenty years old. He attended the Kunstgewerbeschule to study painting and drawing (1918-21) and took a strong interest in the principles of the Bauhaus.

    Schleger moved to New York where he worked as a magazine paste-up artist and freelance advertising designer. He adopted the signature Zero, a wry comment on his status as a designer. In 1929 he returned to Berlin to work for the German office of W.S. Crawford. Schleger arrived in England in 1932 where his contacts among Crawford’s modernist designers, notably Edward McKnight Kauffer RDI and Ashley Havinden RDI, helped establish him at the centre of London’s avant-garde design community. As a result of his success Schleger stayed in Britain and became a naturalized citizen in 1939.

    During the Second World War he designed propaganda posters, as Publicity Officer for London Transport, commissioned Schleger to design posters. After the war he worked as a consultant to Mather and Crowther, before founding his own company Hans Schleger & Associates in 1953.

    Hans Schleger died at the age of 78, on 18th September 1976.
    Schleger moved to New York where he worked as a magazine paste-up artist and freelance advertising designer. He adopted the signature Zero, a wry comment on his status as a designer. In 1929 he returned to Berlin to work for the German office of W.S. Crawford. Schleger arrived in England in 1932 where his contacts among Crawford’s modernist designers, notably Edward McKnight Kauffer RDI and Ashley Havinden RDI, helped establish him at the centre of London’s avant-garde design community. As a result of his success Schleger stayed in Britain and became a naturalized citizen in 1939.

    During the Second World War he designed propaganda posters, as Publicity Officer for London Transport, commissioned Schleger to design posters. After the war he worked as a consultant to Mather and Crowther, before founding his own company Hans Schleger & Associates in 1953.

    Hans Schleger died at the age of 78, on 18th September 1976.

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