Architype van der Leck Architype van der Leck Architype van der Leck is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon the 1941 typeface designed by Bart van der Leck for the Dutch magazine "Flax," a journal of the De Stijl art movement. The face is geometrically constructed, and based upon an earlier stencil lettering alphabet van der Leck designed in the early 1930s for use in branding and advertising Jo de Leeuw's prestigious Dutch department stores Metz & Co. The face shares structural similarities with Theo van Doesburg's 1919 geometric alphabet, and anticipates later typographic explorations of geometric reductionism of Wim Crouwel's 1967 "New Alphabet"
Jacob Jan van der Maaten of it on the wall. Vincent van Gogh referred in several letters to his brother Theo van Gogh to the work of Van der Maaten. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Groninger Museum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, CODA Museum Apeldoorn and Museum Elburg have paintings of Van der Maaten. Jacob Jan van der Maaten Jacob Jan van der Maaten (Elburg, 4 January 1820 – Apeldoorn, 16 April 1879) was a Dutch painter and etcher. Van der Maaten was a pupil of Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen and studied at the Royal Academy of Art,