New York, New York, January 23, 2017—Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Paul Stirton has received a Getty Library Research Grant. The focus of his research will be the papers of the German graphic designer Jan Tschichold (1902-74) and those of the Soviet artist-designer El Lissitzky, both now held in the Getty Archives in California.During the 1920s Tschichold began a correspondence with several artist-designers in Central and Eastern Europe and the Netherlands (including Kurt Schwitters, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Piet Zwart), during which they exchanged examples of their work. This was the raw material that inspired Tschichold’s seminal book, Die Neue Typographie (1928), since described as “the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age.” Tschichold’s collection of modernist graphics, which was given to the Museum of Modern Art by Philip Johnson, will be the subject a spring 2019 Bard Graduate Center Focus Project. Dr. Stirton’s current research and publications are mostly concentrated in architecture and design in Britain and Central Europe (primarily Hungary) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is also the editor of West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, published by University of Chicago Press for Bard Graduate Center.