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This print was released in hommage to Mautz's 75th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Catalog lists concrete poetic posters printed with woodcut type by the press. Several of these posters are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Eugen Gomringer provided an introduction. One of the poems entitled "persilschein" that is depicted, the word is a German idiom meanung "Clean Bill of Health" The top line refers to the Nazi brown shirts who after WWII were denazified according to evidence present to the allies and now became "white shirts."Wikipedia: Kurt Adolf Mautz (* June 1st 1911 in Montigny-les-Metz , "  November 2000 in Wiesbaden ) was a German literary scholar and writer . He was the father of actor Rolf Mautz .Mautz studied German literature, philosophy and history, first from 1930 to 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, among others in the then little-known lecturer Theodor W. Adorno , from 1934 in Giessen at the Catholic priest Theodor Steinbuchel , the one there Concordat Chair for Philosophy held. "The Nazi seizure of power here seemed less noisy than being run in Frankfurt," Mautz wrote later in his novel The key Urfreund. "I ... took care about nothing but my dissertation." Mautz in 1936 with a study of Max...