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ID: 500006911
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006911
 
Record Type: Person
Zwart, Piet (Dutch photographer and designer, 1885-1977)

Note: Zwart worked as an assistant architect in Voorburg from 1919 to 1921, and in The Hague, Netherlands, from 1921 to 1927. In 1923, Zwart began experimenting with photograms and in 1926, he was introduced to photomontage by the artist and photographer El Lissitzky (1890-1941). From 1928, Zwart worked as a freelance photographer and graphic designer in Delft, Rotterdam and The Hague, Netherlands.

Names:
Zwart, Piet (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Piet Zwart (V,display)
Zwart, Pieter (V)
Pieter Zwart (V)

Nationalities:
Dutch (preferred)
Netherlandish

Roles:
artist (preferred)
designer
architect
draftsman
graphic designer
furniture designer
industrial designer
interior designer
photographer
teacher
typographer
lecturer
glass designer
turner
interior decorator
ceramicist
textile artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Zaandijk (North Holland, Netherlands) (inhabited place)
Died:  Leidschendam (South Holland, Netherlands) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1919 - 1977

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
assisted by ....  Allner, Walter  
....................  (German typographer and graphic designer, 1909-2006) [500126256]
student of ....  Sturm, Georg  
..................  (Austrian artist, 1855-1923) [500176347]
teacher of ....  Blazer, Carel  
..................  (Dutch photographer, 1911-1980) [500349350]
teacher of ....  Bosman, Jacob  
..................  (Netherlands artist, born 1901) [500198345]
teacher of ....  Elenbaas, Wally  
..................  (Dutch painter and designer, 1912-2008) [500373963]
teacher of ....  Elffers-Andriesse, Emmy Eugènie  
..................  (Dutch photographer, 1914-1953) [500386977]
teacher of ....  Elffers, Dick  
..................  (Dutch graphic designer, 1910-1990) [500116738]
teacher of ....  Wolf, Hans  
..................  (Dutch photographer, 1909-1992) [500551725]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Zwart, Piet (I)

Biographies:
(Dutch photographer and designer, 1885-1977) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Dutch designer, 1885-1977) ..... [BHA]
(Netherlandish architect, photographer, furniture designer, teacher and draughtsman; born Zaandijk (Netherlands), 1885; died Leidschendam (Netherlands), 1977) ..... [CCA]
(Dutch, 1885-1977) ..... [JPGM]
(Dutch artist, 1885-1977) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Dutch designer, 1885-1977) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1885-1977) ..... [GRL]
(Dutch artist, 1885-1977) ..... [MoMA]
(Dutch architect, 1885-1977) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Pieter Zwart ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Piet Zwart ........ [CCA, MoMA, VP]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Zwart, Piet ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Friedl, Typography (1998) 586
........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83200405
........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 86727
Zwart, Pieter ........ [RKD, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 86727
............................  Witt Library, Authority files

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRL, Grove Art, JPGM, MoMA, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Decisive Image: Dutch Photography (1991) 218-219
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Friedl, Typography (1998) 586
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n83200405
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Huygen, Piet Zwart (1983)
....................  Joppien, Piet Zwart, Museen in Köln (1977)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n83200405
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  MoMA, Library Catalog (1976)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 86727
....................  Scheen, Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 (1981)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q529366
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
....................  Zwart, Retrospektive Fotografie (1981)
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, VP]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
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