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Niklaus Troxler

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Swiss graphic designer

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Niklaus Troxler
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According to Wikipedia, Niklaus Troxler is a Swiss graphic designer. He was the organizer of the Willisau Jazz Festival from 1975 to 2009. Biography Troxler studied graphic design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He worked as an art director in Paris in 1972 and subsequently founded his own design practice in Willisau, Switzerland. He started organizing jazz concerts in Willisau in 1966 and initiated the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1975. He organized this internationally renowned yearly Festival until 2009 before passing the baton over to his nephew, Arno Troxler. Troxler's graphic works won him several relevant international awards: the Toulouse-Lautrec Medal in Gold , design awards in Lahti , Helsinki , Hong Kong , Hangzhou , Ningbo , Taiwan , and Colorado . He won the Innerschweizer Kulturpreis in 1982. Troxler is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. His posters are represented in the most renowned design collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama, Hamburg's Museum for Art and Industry, the German Poster Museum in Essen, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

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