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Title: Graphic designs of Paul Schuitema
Date (inclusive): 1920-1965
Number: 930034
Creator/Collector:
Schuitema, Paul, 1897-1973
Physical Description:
0.05 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
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 is in Dutch, German and English.
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.
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Graphic designs of Paul Schuitema, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 930034.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa930034
The collection was acquired 1993.
Rose Lachman processed the collection and wrote the finding aid.
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.
Arranged according to the Prakapas inventory.