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Ad Code: 4
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"Untitled", c.1970, Serigraph, Signed and numbered 10/100, 23 x 22 inches
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Rogallery.com:
| Born in Dessau, Germany on January 2, 1909, Walter Heinz Allner
enrolled at the Bauhaus*, the legendary German design school, in 1927,
two years after it moved from Weimar to his hometown and six years
before the Nazis closed it. He studied typography, poster design
and painting for three years, at various times under leaders of the
Modern movement, including Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul
Klee.
Designer, typographer and painter Walter Allner was
trained at the Bauhaus where he studied with masters Josef Albers,
Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Joost Schmidt. He was the Paris
editor of Graphis magazine from 1945-1948, and in 1949 emigrated to the United States. Allner was an influential art director at Fortune magazine from 1963-1974.
Two
years after founding his own design firm, Omnium Graphique in Paris,
Mr. Allner left it in 1936 to devote himself exclusively, if
temporarily, to painting abstract* works and exhibited at the Salon des
Surindépendants* in Paris. He eventually returned to graphic
design, first as editor of the Swiss design journal Graphis.
In 1948 he founded the International Poster Annual, earning a place as
one of the world’s leading experts on poster history.
During his 12 years at Fortune,
in addition to maintaining the magazine’s Bauhaus-inspired contemporary
typography* and elegant overall design scheme, he personally created 79
covers, which ran the gamut from minimalist graphic abstraction to
complex photographic collage*.
In 1965, after taking a course at
M.I.T., he experimented with the first computer-designed cover on a
national magazine for the annual Fortune 500 issue. A company
press release at the time proudly noted that the image, consisting of
arrows in upward flight behind large illuminated numerals, was
generated on a computer’s oscilloscope and then photographed.
After
leaving Fortune in 1974, he taught and lectured. His motto for
students and professionals was “Raise the aesthetic standard — the
public is more perceptive than you think.” He also continued to design
posters based on principles he learned at the Bauhaus: shunning any
superfluous ornamentation and conveying messages with brevity and
simplicity.
*For more in-depth information about these terms and others, see
AskART.com Glossary
http://www.askart.com/AskART/lists/Art_Definition.aspx
| Source:
rogallery.com |
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