Wim Crouwel

Willem Hendrik Crouwel ( born November 21, 1928 in Groningen) is a Dutch graphic artist, painter, professor and director of the museum. He is mainly known for his poster and catalog designs, his design of fonts and its stamp designs. Crouwel lives and works in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Life and work

Willem Hendrik Crouwel occurs, among other things as an artist under the name: Wim Crouwel, Willm Hendrik Crouwel; Willm & Hendrik Crouwel, Willem Hendrik & Crouwel, Wilm & Hendrik Crouwel or WH on. Crouwel studied at the Academy Minerva in Groningen from 1947 to 1949. Thereafter, he completed studies at the Art and Industry Institute in Amsterdam until 1952. Since 1951 he works as a freelance graphic designer in Amsterdam.

He was awarded the Werkman Prize of the city of Amsterdam. In 1963 he was one of the five founders of the design agency ' Total Design " and in the 1960s a member of the International Center for the Typographic Arts ( ICTA ). Wim Crouwel is responsible for many posters, catalogs and exhibitions for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam since 1964. He also worked for the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In 1964 he was invited to Documenta III ( in the Department of graphics ) to Kassel. Large international reputation Wim Crouwel was also due to its design of the Dutch pavilion at the World Expo 1970 in Osaka.

In 1973 he is Professor of Industrial Design at the Technical University of Delft. He remained a consultant at Total Design and in 1981 became director of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. He took over the same year as a professor of Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work has won numerous national and international awards. He also designed numerous postage stamps for the Dutch postal. The best known of these are the number of stamps, first published in 1976.

Awards

• 2009 - Gerrit Noordzij price for typography of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences