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INVENTORY OF THE GRAPHIC DESIGNS OF PAUL SCHUITEMA,
1920-1965
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Title: Graphic designs of Paul Schuitema
Dates: 1920-1965
Collection number: 930034
Creator:
Schuitema, Paul, 1897-1973
Extent:
.05 linear ft.
(1
box)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
Abstract: Dutch graphic, furniture, and architectural designer who worked in lithography, etching, woodcutting and painting. He was
also a filmmaker, photographer, and teacher who applied the principle of De Stijl and constructivism to commercial advertising.
The collection consists of printed ephemera such as advertisements, pamphlets, proof pages, flyers, and one photograph, representing
Schuitema's designs, typography, photomontages, and use of color.
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Language: Collection material in German, and English
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Graphic designs of Paul Schuitema, Getty
Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 930034.
The collection was acquired 1993.
Rose Lachman processed the collection and wrote the finding aid.
Paul Schuitema, 1897-1973, was a Dutch graphic, furniture and
architectural designer who worked in lithography, etching, wood cutting and
painting. He was also a film maker, photographer and teacher. As an early
modernist, he applied the principles of de Stijl and Constructivism to
commercial advertising. His style was direct and frontal, making graphic use of
words and confronting the viewer with the object that needed to be sold in his
advertising brochures.
Schuitema's work has been exhibited throughout Europe. His first
American exhibition was held March, 1993 at the Prakapas Gallery in New York.
He was active in the design of publications made by and for workers, such as
Links Richten. He designed the pamphlets and
advertisements for such Dutch companies as Berkel, Boele & Van Eesteren, De
Vries Robbé and the ENCI.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection is a sampling of Paul Schuitema's graphic design work
(typography, typesetting, photography, photomontage), spanning the years
1920-1965. His designs for advertising material incorporate bold text,
drawings, color and various photographic techniques. There are 27 examples of
brochures, flyers, booklets and one photograph as described in the box list
below. Each piece is numbered and dated by the Prakapas Gallery in New York and
refers to the numbering on the list from the exhibition held March 11-14,
1993.
Arrangement
Arranged according to the Prakapas inventory.