Gielijn Escher Living for Posters

Communication design / Exhibitions

Start date: 02-06-2012

End date: 30-09-2012

Country: The Netherlands

City: Rotterdam

Location: Boijmans van Beuningen

Gielijn Escher has been designing and collecting posters for fifty years. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing a combined survey of Escher’s own posters and a selection from his collection.

By Editor Design.nl / 15-06-2012

The exhibition coincides with the publication of a book: ‘Gielijn Escher Living for Posters’.

This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is exhibiting a selection of approximately sixty posters by Gielijn Escher (1945). The display is complemented by sixty posters from Escher’s collection of German posters by artists including Lucian Bernhard, Hans Rudi Erdt and Ludwig Hohlwein. To coincide with the exhibition, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant is publishing a book on Escher’s work with an essay by Mienke Simon Thomas, curator of applied arts and design at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

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Image: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Gielijn Escher, Poster Ludwig Hohlwein, Marco Polo fee, ca 1920-25, lithography