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Paul Renner

1878 - 1956

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Paul Friedrich August Renner (9 August 1878 – 25 April 1956) was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one of the most successful and most-used types of the 20th century. Renner was born in Wernigerode, and died in Hödingen (today part of Überlingen, Germany). He had a strict Protestant upbringing, being educated in a 19th-century Gymnasium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Renner is the 1,416th most popular painter (down from 1,239th in 2019), the 3,801st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,347th in 2019) and the 124th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul Renner ranks 1,416 out of 2,023. Before him are George Catlin, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Inji Aflatoun, Sin Yun-bok, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, and Mary Beale. After him are Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Pavel Filonov, Domenico Tintoretto, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Hans Hofmann, and Charles de La Fosse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Paul Renner ranks 155. Before him are Inigo Campioni, Takeo Arishima, Pierre Fatou, Joe Ruddy, Oton Župančič, and Wander Johannes de Haas. After him are Chen Jiongming, Walther Katzenstein, Louise Dresser, Major Taylor, Siamanto, and Artur Kapp. Among people deceased in 1956, Paul Renner ranks 129. Before him are Touria Chaoui, Truxtun Hare, Johannes Gabriel Granö, E. A. Dupont, Helmer Hanssen, and Johann Radon. After him are Navvab Safavi, Tommy Dorsey, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Hans Carossa, Herminio Masantonio, and Vladimir Filatov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Renner ranks 3,803 out of 7,253. Before him are Benjamin List (1968), Johann Schweigger (1779), Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), Johann Georg Halske (1814), John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), and Ralf Moeller (1959). After him are Margit Carstensen (1940), Peter Schilling (1956), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), Carl Bolle (1821), Traugott Herr (1890), and Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Paul Renner ranks 124. Before him are Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Jörg Breu the Elder (1475), Edgar Ende (1901), Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899), Christian Schad (1894), and Georg Muche (1895). After him are Hans Hofmann (1880), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), Virgil Solis (1514), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), J. C. Leyendecker (1874), and Heinrich Campendonk (1889).

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