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alter Allner, German (1909 - 2006) Born in Dessau, Germany, on Jan. 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 US. Allner was an influential art director at Fortune magazine from 1963-1974.