The Große Düsseldorfer Kunstausstellung was a large art exhibition that took place at Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast (Ehrenhof) from 9 April to 7 May 1961.

Wolf D. Zimmermann designed the key visual and brochure cover. He opted for a lockup involving seventeen times the letter D (or d), for Düsseldorf. Many of the featured typefaces were released in the decade before the exhibition, including Salto (Klingspor, 1952), Vendôme italique (Fonderie Olive, 1953), Pro Arte (Haas, 1954), Time Script (Weber, 1956) Folio schmalfett (Bauer, 1956), and Papageno (Bauer, 1958). The only typeface to appear twice, in upper- and lowercase, is Volta (Bauer, 1955).

The exhibition title at the top is added in Helvetica. I’m not quite sure if the elongated didone D really is from Onyx. And I didn’t track down the specific Bodoni (?) version.

Via Jens Müller, who praises Zimmermann as one of his favorite designers.