“In the 1950s and 1960s a group of talented and innovative Dutch designers moved to Ireland to live and work. The ‘Dutch School’ as it came to be known included Guus Melai, Jan de Fouw, Bert van Embden, Willem van Velzen, Gerrit van Gelderen, Piet Sluis and Cor Klaasen, amongst others. Over the following decades they transformed Irish graphic design.
Cor Klaasen was one of the most talented and prolific of the designers in this group, becoming one of the leading book cover designers working in Ireland in the sixties and seventies and his semi-abstract style retains its freshness and vitality to this day.”
