Jan van Haasteren

Jan van Haasteren was born in 1936 in Schiedam near Rotterdam, Holland. In 1962 he started work doing advertising / illustration and went to work for Toonder Animation Studios.

Among the many figures he used to draw was Disney's Hiawatha. After 5 years he left to become a freelance illustrator, creating a comic strip called 'Baron van Tast' which became fairly well known. Shortly after he received his first poster commission from Heineken to design the interior of a pub for their Lemon Genever.

This was the start of a long list of posters, which he does for clients all over the world. He has made Olympic Games posters for Philips, a series of interiors of crazy factories for Colt International, posters for banks and insurance companies etc.

Comic strips and posters are his favourite works. He now creates a lot of puzzle illustrations exclusively for Jumbo, which find their way into homes in many countries.

Click here to see items that are in almost all of the van Haasteren puzzles!