Illustrator and draftsman Waldemar Post has passed away. That reports de Volkskrant, for which he worked for fifty years. Post ended up in hospital with corona complaints and died yesterday at the age of 84.
Post also worked for HP / De Tijd, Opzij, Vrij Nederland, Avenue and Playboy. He was also the permanent designer of the Madame Tussauds museum in London for a long time.
For Post, drawings had to be razor-sharp and instantly recognizable, with some caricature in them. According to the Volkskrant, he was horrified when readers had to guess who it was exactly. “The trend now is: don’t take any notice of the reader,” said Post in an interview in the newspaper years ago. “Not for me, but that must be old-fashioned.”
‘Last Real Illustrator’
Colleague and friend Peter van Straaten, who died in 2016, once said that he did not understand why Post was not world famous.
Last year Post donated 300 writer’s portraits at the Literature Museum in The Hague. He had drawn these portraits for various magazines in 40 years.
Waldemar Post was called the ‘last true illustrator’. “I didn’t make that up myself, but it is kind of like that,” he acknowledged in an interview. “It’s a dying breed.”
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