i10: INTERNATIONALE AVANTGARDE 1927 – 1929
Stedelijk Museum catalog 344
Arthur Müller Lehning [text], Jurriaan Schrofer [design]
Arthur Müller Lehning [text], Jurriaan Schrofer [design] i10: INTERNATIONALE AVANTGARDE 1927 – 1929. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1963. First edition [catalog 344]. Text in Dutch. Single sheet printed in two colors folded to 27 x 19 cm that unfolds to form a 41 x 56 cm [22 x 16-inch] poster. Spotting to both sides, but a very good example of this elaborate Stedelijk catalog.
Stedelijk catalog 344 is a single sheet printed in two colors folded to 27 x 19 cm that unfolds to form a 41 x 56 cm [22 x 16-inch] poster, designed by Jurriaan Schrofer for an exhibition from October 18 to November 18, 1963.
Includes black and white portraits of Alma, Arp, Baumeister, Benjamin, Bloch, Ter Braak, Brancusi, Clair, Domela, Van Eesteren, Gabo, Gumbel, Huszar, Ivens, Kandinsky, Van Der Leck, De Ligt, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, Mondriaan, Nettlau, Oud, Pijper, Rietveld, Romein, Schuitema, Schwitters, Stam, Vantongerloo and Vordemberge.
Arthur Müller Lehning published i10 International Revue from 1927 to 1929 with a stellar roster of contributing editors: J. J. P. Oud (Architecture), Willem Pijper (Music) and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Film and Photo).
“The international review i10 will be an organ of the modern mind, a documentation of the new streams in art, science, philosophy, and sociology. It will give an opportunity to express the renewal of one domain with that of another and it aims as large a connection as large as possible between these different domains. As this monthly asserts no dogmatic tendencies nor represents any party neither anygroup, the contents will not always have a complete homogeneous character and will be mostly more informative than following at one line of thought. Its idea is to give a general view of the renewal which is now accomplishing itself in culture and it is open, international, for all wherein it is expressed.”—Arthur Müller Lehning, 1927
Arthur Müller Lehning (1899-2000) aligned himself with the antimilitarists and libertarians he met in Paris and Vienna after World War I. Lehning eventually returned to his native Netherlands and settled in Amsterdam where he published the i 10 International Revue from 1927 to 1929.
Within the pages of i10, Lehning collaborated with many of the greatest minds of the era, including Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Upton Sinclair, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Netlau, Otto R¸hle, Henriette Roland-Holst, Alexandre Berkman and Alexander Shapiro.
Lehning was awarded the most significant literary prize in Holland, the PC Hooft-Prijs in 1999 for his work relating to the history of the anarchistic movement and anarcho-trade unionist and its theorists.
Here is Lehning's obituary from the International Institute of Social History (IISH):
On January 1, 2000, Arthur Lehning died at his residence at Le Plessis, Indre (France). Born on October 23, 1899, he was 100 years old. Others will no doubt commemorate his life as an anarchist and anti-militarist, an essayist and the sole editor of the avant-garde journal i 10. He was, among many other things, a secretary of the anarcho-syndicalist International Working Men's Association in 1932-1935, at a time when the IWMA was closely involved in the revolutionary activities of the Spanish Confederacin Nacional del Trabajo.
At the International Institute of Social History, Lehning will be remembered as an important representative of its founding generation. In 1935 he was among the Institute's first staff, with a special responsibility for the South-European and Anarchist collections. From April 1939 all through WW II he was in charge of the Oxford branch of the IISH, to which the most sensitive archival records had been sent after the conclusion of the Munich Agreement. In 1957 he returned to the Institute as editor of the collected works of the Russian revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin, published under the title Archives Bakounine. Some of his major scholarly articles were collected in From Buonarroti to Bakunin (1970).
A real internationalist, who lived in many countries and used to travel widely, Lehning always took a lively interest in political and cultural affairs that far outranged the traditional scope of the Institute. The IISH owes him deep gratitude for the tremendous work he has accomplished on its behalf.