The Geometry of the Landscape Harr Scheffer looked at the world through a lens of reduction. Born in Venlo, his hands moved between the roles of painter, sculptor, and graphic artist, often finding his way back to the quiet rhythms of the Dutch landscape. He studied at the Graphic School in Roermond and later at the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven, a place where he would eventually spend his time as a lecturer starting in 1963. His work does not seek to replicate every leaf or blade of grass; instead, it seeks the underlying structure of a place. He stripped the scenery down to its…