Paul renner futura biography of rory allen

Although he did not belong to the Bauhaus school, he developed intense work under the principles of New Typography and German modernism. He worked as a graphic designer, typographer, painter and teacher. Although he was not directly related to the Bauhaus movement of the s, he soon came to defend its positions and become a fervent defender of the New Typography.

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In , he was appointed director of the School of German Master Printers. In he attempted to publish a book titled Kultur-bolschewismus? Cultural Bolshevism? When the Nazis came to power shortly thereafter, he was arrested and dismissed from his position. However, he managed to influence the choice of the new director, his friend George Trump. In terms of typography, Renner has a prolific career.

He created a highly successful new sans-serif typeface, the Futura , between and , introduced by the Bauer Types type foundry. This typeface was offered to the public under the motto "The letter of our time" since its forms were based on the circle, the square and the triangle, which is why it adopted the main postulates of modernism and especially the De Stijl and Bauhaus movements.

The author had a complete command of typography, he investigated the need to emphasize the natural rhythm of Western reading, from left to right, to facilitate and optimize the legibility of the new design. The drawings, catalogs and original lead types of the Futura were transferred by the Neufville Foundry of Barcelona to the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona Department of Image and Communication , where they are deposited.

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