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BACKGROUND

The Designer – Paul Renner

設計師 – 保羅．倫納

Paul Renner was born in 1878 in
Wernigerode, Germany. He was
a graphic designer, typographer, 保羅．倫納生於1878在德國。他是一個
type designer, painter and teach- 平面設計師、版面設計師、字體設計師、
er. He was brought up to have a 畫家和教師。他被教育成一個非常富責
very German sense of leadership, 任感的德國式領導意識。他是對抽象藝術
discipline and responsibility. He 抱猜疑的態度，不喜歡多種形式的現代文
was suspicious of abstract art and 化，如爵士、電影、舞蹈。同樣地，他十
disliked many forms of modern 分應同現代主義中功能主義的表達方式。
culture, such as jazz, cinema, and
dancing. Equally, he admired the
functionalist strain in modernism.

Paul Renner (1878 — 1956)

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