Jan van Toorn
Jan van Toorn (9 May 1932 – 13 November 2020) was a Dutch graphic designer.
Also recorded as Jan Willem Van Toorn · J. van Toorn
Jan van Toorn
- Born
- 1932 · Tiel.
- Died
- 2020 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- graphic designer · photographer · typographer · postage stamp designer · poster artist · exhibition designer · book designer · painter
- Fields
- graphic design
- Education
- Gerrit Rietveld Academie
- Honours
- H.N. Werkman Award · BNO Piet Zwart Prijs
- Languages
- Dutch
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Biography
Jan van Toorn studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is graphic design. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Employment is recorded with Jan van Eyck Academie, Jumbo Games and Sikkens. Work by Jan van Toorn is recorded in the collections of Stadsarchief Rotterdam, Museum of Modern Art, Van Abbemuseum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and National Museum Paleis het Loo. Distinctions recorded are H.N. Werkman Award and BNO Piet Zwart Prijs.
Van Toorn began working in a printing house in Amsterdam as a teenager. He also attended evening classes at a graphic school and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. He became a freelance graphic designer in 1957, making calendars for Mart.Spruijt in Amsterdam and posters and catalogs for the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In the 1980s, van Toorn became active in the field of education, teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He received the Piet Zwart Prijs in 1985. In February 2008, he sent his collective works to the archives at the University of Amsterdam. Jan van Toorn died in Amsterdam on 13 November 2020 at the age of 88.
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Identity
Jan van Toorn is recorded as graphic designer, photographer, typographer, postage stamp designer and poster artist.
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Life and career
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1932
Jan van Toorn was born in 1932 at Tiel.
2020
Jan van Toorn died in 2020 at Amsterdam.
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Tiel.
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Amsterdam.
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- “Jan van Toorn”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2523286: Jan van Toorn
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