Ben Nicholson, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1954

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  • Format Exhibition Catalogue
  • Designer/s Willem Sandberg
  • Year 1954
  • Client/Publisher Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Size 190mm x 260mm
Willem Sandberg
Ben Nicholson was born in Buckinghamshire to artists William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. He studied at the Slade School of Art in 1910–11 and spent time in France, Italy, and the United States before marrying artist Winifred Roberts. After their separation, he married sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Nicholson lived in London in the 1930s, visiting the studios of major modernists in Paris, and later worked in Cornwall and Switzerland before returning to London in 1974. Explore related designers including William Morris and Eric Gill. See also British graphic design history and 1930s graphic design history.
Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg, commonly known as Willem Sandberg, was born in 1897 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In 1945, Sandberg became the director of the Stedelijk Museum, where he was responsible for artists and art forms, designing many of the museum's catalogues, posters, and exhibitions using his typographic experiments. He designed around 380 posters and over 250 catalogues and also collaborated with other designers, including Otto Treumann and Dick Elffers. Explore related designers including Wim Crouwel and Dick Elffers. See also Dutch Modernism, Dutch graphic design history, and 1940s graphic design history.

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Ben Nicholson, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1954
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