| LC control no. | n 50018512 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Crouwel, Wim |
| Variant(s) | Crouwel, W. H. Crouwel, Willem Hendrik |
| Associated place | Delft (Netherlands) Rotterdam (Netherlands) |
| Birth date | 1928-11-21 |
| Death date | 2019-09-19 |
| Place of birth | Groningen (Netherlands) |
| Field of activity | Art Graphic arts |
| Affiliation | Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen Technische Hogeschool Delft Associatie voor Total Design |
| Profession or occupation | Art museum directors Typographers Graphic artists College administrators |
| Found in | Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. Jaap Wagemaker, 1967. Vorm geven aan veelzijdigheid, 1993: t.p. (Wim Crouwel, former dir. of the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen) Smet, Catherine de. Wim Crouwel, 2007: p. 52 (b. 1928 in Groningen, the Netherlands) Treasures of the Tsar, 1996: colophon (W.H. Crouwel) Guardian WWW site, viewed Oct. 4, 2019 (Wim Crouwel; Wim (Willem) Hendrik Crouwel, typographer, born 21 November 1928 in the provincial Netherlands city of Groningen; died 19 September 2019; graphic designer; influential teacher at the Technical University in Delft and, from 1985 to 1993, the director of the Boijmans Van Beuningen art muiseum in Rotterdam) TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Engineering WWW site, viewed Oct. 4, 2019 (Professor Wim Crouwel sadly passed away on 19 September 2019. Born in Groningen in 1928, Wim Crouwel quickly gained a reputation for his modern and functional form of graphic design. He was one of the founding members of the agency Total Design. Wim Crouwel's involvement with the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering began in 1965, when he taught typography in the Industrial Design Department of the Architecture Faculty (then part of Delft's Technical College). From 1973, he taught Design (Vormgeving) and Art History. In 1978 he left the Department, returning in 1980 as a full-time professor of Industrial Design, chairing the Design Department from 1980 to 1982 and becoming dean of our faculty in 1984. After leaving the faculty in 1985, Wim Crouwel went on to become the director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 96113998 |
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