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JEAN WIDMER AND
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU
SIGN PROGRAM
Paris, France
Visuel Design (est. 1980), Designers
Paris, France
Renzo Piano (b. 1937) and Richard Rogers (b. 1933),
Architects
Paris, France
1977
Jean Widmer (b. 1929) was born in Frauenfeld,
Switzerland, and studied at the Kunstgewerbe-
schule in Zurich, where he was influenced by
the teachings of the color theorist Johannes
Itten (1888–1967), a former “master” instructor
at the Bauhaus (1919; see page 75). In 1952, he
moved to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-
Arts before becoming an art director at the
department store Galeries Lafayette in 1959.
In 1961, he ...