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Description
Imre Reiner*
(born c. 1900 – died 1987, Lugano)
Aristophanes, The Birds, 1972
lithograph on paper, 46 x 32.2 cm
signed Reiner, dated 17 August 1972
inscribed ‘Aristophanes, die Vögel’
ESTIMATE €80 – €150
STARTING PRICE €80
Imre Reiner was a 20th-century Hungarian-Austrian-Swiss graphic artist, typographer and calligrapher specialising in geometric abstraction. Born in 1900 in Versec (now Vršac, Serbia) as the son of a doctor, he studied at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts and the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1918 to 1924. From 1928, he worked as an artistic director at printing works in Vienna and Darmstadt. He emigrated to Zurich in 1938 and taught as a professor at the Basel School of Applied Arts from 1947. In 1963, he was awarded the Gold Medal at the International Book Art Exhibition in Leipzig. Reiner created calligraphic compositions, typographic works and abstract colour woodcuts characterised by clear geometry, rhythmic structure and pure typography, influenced by the Bauhaus, De Stijl and the Wiener Werkstätte. Posters, book designs and prints characterised by constructive precision and a universal typographic aesthetic. Other artists and styles: László Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold, Wiener Werkstätte, Bauhaus typography, Swiss School of Graphic Arts, calligraphic abstraction, Basel School of Applied Arts, book arts
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