Johan Thorn Prikker

Thorn Prikker, Johan





Johan Thorn Prikker was born June 5 1868 BirthDen Haag, Netherlands.
Died March 5 1932 deathKoln, Germany.

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For Johan Thorn Prikker, poster design was not a sideline pursuit. It was an important part of his oeuvre. Dutch by birth, he spent much of his career in Germany…
Thorn Prikker’s famous poster for an exhibition of Dutch art in nearby Krefeld, Germany, demonstrates the restraint and symmetry manifested by the Art Nouveau style as adapted in Holland. The juxtaposition of positive and negative, dark and light versions of the same interlaced patterns is allied with a similar succession found in Celtic manuscript borders…
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