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Willem Sandberg was a gifted designer and a pragmatic museum director, a doerwho achieved an incredible amount in the art world after 1945 and opened manypeople’s eyes to contemporary art. He was an idealist who cherished the utopianbelief that contemporary art could play a self-evident and meaningful role in societyoutside of its usual marginal and elitist position. At the same time, he was enoughof a realist not to harbour excessively high expectations of the result of his efforts.Hi