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Amsterdam School / Art Deco bookmark by Fur trader J. Greeve & Son.
Kalverstraat 162-164, Amsterdam
Design: Johanna Coster (ca. 1922)
Signed in the print at the bottom
Dimensions approx. 15.5 x 6.5 cm. In reasonably good condition, light creases and wear over the years
Johanna Coster (1893-1960) was a Dutch artist and graphic designer. She also called herself Jo Cohen or Johanna Cohen-Coster.
She was educated at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in her hometown of Amsterdam. About her work it is known that she had a column with fashion drawings in the magazine Eigen Haard and did advertisements for Lever's Zeep Maatschappij in Vlaardingen, advertisements for Gerzon's fashion magazine, for Greeve's fur fashion, the Spyker car factory and the municipality of Amsterdam. At the publishers Kluitman in Alkmaar and van Goor in The Hague she did the illustrations for a number of children's books and was a book cover designer.