May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

WILLEM SANDBERG (1897-1984)

VANK / TENTOONSTELLING BINNENHUISKUNST. 1933.


34 1/2x25 3/4 inches, 87 3/4x65 1/2 cm. Ahrend & Zoon, Amsterdam.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges; abrasion in upper right image above text. creases in margins and image; pin holes in upper corners. Matted.

In his youth, Sandberg was influenced both by the Bauhaus and Otto Neurath's Isoptype system. He began working for the Stedelijk Museum in 1928, and became part of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. His pre-war posters are more structured and in keeping with European design tenets, such as from the Bauhaus, with sensible, straightforward typography that is less creative than it became after the war. Stedelijk SA 00207.