Van Caspel

johann georg van caspel made advertising posters for amsterdam shops in the 1890s and 1900s — dutch art nouveau with a flatter, more graphic eye than the parisian crowd. trained as an oil painter, he switched to lithography after a chance meeting with a poster printer; his commercial work for ivens, hinde and karman became foundational to dutch graphic design. two of his shop posters are in the catalog.