Imre Reiner

Graphis 89, 1960

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Yusaku Kamekura, Tokyo: Japanese Packs – Traditional and Modern Approaches
Saul Bass, Los Angeles: Film Titles – A New Field for the Graphic Designer
H.W. Luthin/Ch.A.Walz, Jr.: What’s New. A pharmaceutical house organ (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, USA)
Kurt Wirth, Bern: Switzerland: Exhibition Design as Teamwork
Francois Stahly, Paris: USIS. Exhibition Unit of the American Embassy in Paris
Richard Guyatt, London: Edward Bawden
Cyril Beaumont, London: Puppets in Advertising
Mahaut d’Orgel, Milano: Old European Dice Games
Harold Rosenberg, New York: Aaron Siskind – Photographs

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Imre Reiner trained in Hungary as a sculptor. In 1920 he moved to Germany, where he studied graphic art under Ernst Schneidler at the Akademie für Bildende Kunst in Stuttgart. He has lived in Switzerland from 1931 and illustrated, mainly with wood engravings, works of classical and contemporary authors. He was also a painter and exhibited  in Germany, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, São Paulo and at the Triennale in Milan.

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Graphis 89, 1960. Cover design by Imre Reiner.
Graphis 89, 1960. Cover design by Imre Reiner.
Imre Reiner trained in Hungary as a sculptor. In 1920 he moved to Germany, where he studied graphic art under Ernst Schneidler at the Akademie für Bildende Kunst in Stuttgart. He has lived in Switzerland from 1931 and illustrated, mainly with wood engravings, works of classical and contemporary authors. He was also a painter and exhibited  in Germany, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, São Paulo and at the Triennale in Milan.
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