Wim crouwel biography of barack
Wim crouwel.
Wim Crouwel
Groningen, 1931
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Wim crouwel biography of barack
After two years spent collaborating with the prominent Dutch painter and designer Dick Elffers (1910-1990), he attended the evening classes at the IvKNO—Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (Institute for Craftsmanship Education) in Amsterdam, today known as the Rietveld Academy.
In 1955 he opened an office together with Kho Liang Ie (1927-1975)—a Dutch, Indonesian-born designer—working in the fields of exhibition, graphics, and product design.
One of Crouwel’s first clients was the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven for which he designed catalogs, invitations, and posters until 1964. When Edy de Wilde (1919-2005)—director of the Van Abbemuseum—became director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam he took Crouwel with him.
Until the end of his directorship in 1985, Crouwel was solely responsible for the Stedeli