H. N. Werkman

by Rick Poynor, Rick Poyner, Alston W. Purvis

An extraordinary look at the work of a highly influential avant-garde designer, typographer, and printmaker Dutch designer and printmaker Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945) is best known for his innovative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300102909
• ISBN13: 9780300102901
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Unique but shortlived

I first discovered Werkman when I was in Amsterdam, and went to the Van Gogh museum. I work as a designer and editor, so I guess Werkman's background and use of the printing press appealed to me. Unfortunately, most of his work was destroyed by the Nazis, but this book is a great catalogue of what survived. This book gives you a glimpse of the artist's life, and how his art developed through his short career. But I mainly bought it for the art, and was very happy.