Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: H. Th. Wijdeveld graphic
and architectural designs
Dates: 1919-1979
Collection number: 970088
Creator:
Wijdeveld,
H. Th., 1885-1987
Extent:
0.83 linear feet
(2
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Typographical and architectural designs by the Dutch architect
Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld, in original drawings and printed examples.
Language: Collection
material is in English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
H. Th. Wijdeveld, Graphic and architectural designs, 1919-1979,
Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 970088
Acquisition Information
Received in 1997
Processing History
Processed by J. Gibbs
Biographical/Historical Note
Dutch architect who is also known for
Wendingen, a magazine for the decorative arts and
architecture founded by Wijdeveld in 1918.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection contains typographical designs by the Dutch architect
Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld, in original drawings and printed examples (c. 70
items). Also included are drawings, original and reproduced, for his
architectural designs (6 items). Several items, including invitations and a
newspaper article, are about Wijdeveld.
Examples of Wijdeveld's typographical designs include
letterheads, invitations, advertisements, manifestos and prospectuses (c. 45
items). His designs for magazines are represented by layouts and printed proofs
for
Wendingen; a printed cover for
Bouwkundig Weekblad Architectura (1927); rough designs
(1924) and 11 issues of
Architectura (1922). Book designs include proof sheets for
a book by J.W. Schotman (1927), and 1 printed example each of 2 books (by
Albert Vogel, Albert A. Plasschaert) published by Van Loghum Staterus en Visser
(1919).
Architectural designs, all by Wijdeveld, include reproduced and original drawings for the following projects: display rooms
for the 1925
Paris Exposition; a theater in Amsterdam, possibly the unbuilt theater at the
Plantage Middenlaan, 1921; the International Werkgemeenschap Cultuurcentrum, 2
drawings dated 1954, 1959; Groot Bentveld, a plan for a new ‘villa
wijk’ dated 1954; design for a house and studio, possibly for himself,
dated 1958.
The collection contains a few items about Wijdeveld: 2 invitations to
exhibitions of his work (1953, 1967); an invitation to his 90th birthday
reception and a short text set to music by his son-in-law for the occasion
(1975); and an interview with Wijdeveld by Hans Vogel, published in the daily
newspaper,
Het Parool, 1979 February 9.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Wijdeveld, H. Th.,
1885-1987
Exposition internationale
des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes †d (1925 : †c
Paris, France)
Subjects - Topics
Architecture—Netherlands
Architecture, Modern—20th
century—Designs and plans
Architecture, Modern—20th
century—Periodicals
Book design
Graphic arts
Graphic design
(Typography)
Magazine design
Genres and Forms of Material
Architectural
drawings—Netherlands—20th century
Layouts
Letterheads
Contributors
Plasschaert, Albert
August, 1866-1941.
Schotman, Johann W.
(Johann Wilhelm), 1892-
Vogel, Albert,
1874-
Titles
Architectura (Amsterdam,
Netherlands)
Geesten gemoeting
Voordrachts kunst,
theoretische en practische beschouwingen, door Albert Vogel
Wendingen (Amsterdam,
Netherlands)
Zien van schilderijen
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