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Artist: Walter Heinz Allner (German-American, 1909-2006)
WALTER HEINZ ALLNER was born in Dessau, Germany. He 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.
Galerie R is a private collection of quality works acquired by owners Rudi and Jean over the last 40 years. Our collection includes a diverse array of international works with a natural attention on American Figurative, American Realism and Social Realism work from the WPA period on. We work with aspiring and established art collectors, art consultants, and art dealers to authenticate and appraise works of art and to expand art collections.