During spring and summer 2015 the German Museum of Books and Writing showed the exhibition “Kafka im Künstlerbuch” at the German National Library in Leipzig. The exhibition was about how visual artists approach the mysterious, sometimes cryptic texts of the Prague writer with their own techniques and devices. The wealth of imagery in Kafka's texts always incited book designers, illustrators and typographers to grapple with his work. Kafka actually had his own connection to Leipzig: his publishers Ernst Rowohlt and Kurt Wolff were located in the city. Not only the book-objects with different artistic approaches left their mark on the exhibition but also the illuminated signage in Kafka’s own handwriting, i. e. in typeface Mister K. Our photos here will speak for themselves …
