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IB Andersen was a Danish born artist, architect, and illustrator, and the son of artist and poster designer Vlademar Anderson (Danish, 1875-1928). From 1926-29 Andersen studied architecture at the Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. While still in school in 1927, Andersen took the job for which he would become best known, as a cartoonist for the newspaper Politiken. Andersen continued to work for Politiken and its magazine Magasinet until the early 1960s. Throughout his career, he took on graphic arts commissions for book covers and posters. His work of the 1930s suggests the work of AM Cassandre, but his style developed over time, reflecting the influence of his travels to Brazil in the early 1930s, and his trips to the former Danish West Indies, India, and present-day Ghana in the 1940s. Beginning in 1947, Andersen provided the illustrations that were featured on the new series of Danish krone banknotes that were release over the next decade and a half. He died in 1969. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and he was the subject of a monographic exhibition at the Design Museum in Denmark in 2008.
