Spirale 5. Internationale Zeitschrift für konkrete Kunst und Gestaltung

Bern, Spiral Press, 1955. Black wrapper, 35 × 35 cm, with loose inlaid sheets, 40 pp. plus advertisement sheet. Edited by Marcel Wyss and Eugen Gomringer. Contains 3 b/w lithographs by Josef Albers, lithos by Frank Geiser, Gerad Ifert, Paul Thalmann (double sheet in colour), Lanfranco Bombelli, Karl Gerstner, Marcel Wyss, and zinc etchings by Hansjörg Mattmüller, Rolf Willimann and Marcel Wyss (cover). Text contributions by Eugen Gomringer, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers et al, in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Spirale magazine, published in 9 issues between 1953 and 1964, was a platform for young artists and documented the development of abstract and concrete art and poetry in Europe. Spirale 5 was dedicated to Josef Albers (1888–1976), who taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm at the time of publication.