WILLEM SANDBERG.
One of the most important figures in Dutch graphic design and a highly influential museum director during his time at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam. The Stedelijk commissioned him, in 1928, to prepare pictorial statistical information for the exhibition ‘Work for the Disabled’. Appointed curator of modern art in 1937. During the second world war joined the Dutch resistance and assisted in the production of false identity cards. Became director of the Stedelijk in 1945 and personally designed over 300 catalogues prior to retiring in 1964. From 1964 - 1968 he was on the Executive committee of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and lectured on visual communication at Harvard 1969 - 1970. He died in Amsterdam in 1984.
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