May 10, 2016 - Sale 2414

Sale 2414 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WILLEM SANDBERG (1897-1984) TENTOONSTELLING BINNENHUISKUNST. 1933.
34 1/2x25 3/4 inches, 87 3/4x65 1/2 cm. Ahrend & Zoon, Amsterdam.
Condition B+: tears at edges; creases in margins and image; pin holes in upper corners. Paper.
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.