Bart van der Leck
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Bart van der Leck (November 26, 1876, Utrecht - November 13, 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement.
Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kroller-Muller museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands.
In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for Jachtslot St Hubertus, also on the Hoge Veluwe estate. Jachtslot St Hubertus was designed by Berlage. In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the presitgious Dutch department store Metz & Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising. For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear geometrically constructed alphabet. In 1941, he designed a typeface based on this alphabet for the avant garde magazine Flax. Architype van der Leck, a digital revival of that faces by David Quary and Freda Sack of The Foundry, was released in 1994.
[edit] References
- Haley, Allen. Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts. Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998. ISBN 1-56496-317-9
- Hoek, Els, Marleen Blokhuis, Ingrid Goovaerts, Natalie Kamphuys, et al. Theo Van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogus. Centraal Museum: 2000. ISBN 90-6868-255-5.
