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Willem Sandberg

Johannes Itten, Stedelijk Museum, 1957

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  • Format Exhibition Catalogue
  • Designer/s Willem Sandberg
  • Year 1957
  • Client/Publisher Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Willem Sandberg
Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter, designer, teacher, and theorist best known for his influential role at the Bauhaus school. He later served as director of the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich (1938–1954), the Textilfachschule Zürich (1943–1960), and the Museum Rietberg (1949–1956). From 1955, he worked as a freelance painter and led color theory courses at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm. Explore related designers including László Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer. See also Bauhaus, Swiss graphic design history, 1920s 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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Johannes Itten, Stedelijk Museum, 1957. Designed by Willem Sandberg
Johannes Itten, Stedelijk Museum, 1957. Designed by Willem Sandberg
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