Biography
Born 28 August 1906 in Aschaffenburg. Brother of Hein Neuner. 1927-9: studied at the Hochschule für freie und angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt a.M.: teachers included J.V. Cissarz, Hans Leistikow and Willi Baumeister. 1929-31: studied advertising and photography at the Bauhaus, Dessau: teachers included Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans and Kandinsky; then assistant to Peterhans, Herbert Bayer and Moholy-Nagy. 1931-3: assistant to Herbert Bayer at the latter’s Studio Dorland, Berlin. 1933-5: assistant to Moholy-Nagy in Berlin; art director at the Berlin publisher Schottländer. 1935-49: freelance designer in Berlin and, after the war, in Obernau near Aschaffenburg. 1949-53: taught commercial art at the Kunstschule (Schule für Kunst und Handwerk), Saarbrücken; founded the photography class there with Otto Steinert. 1953-69: taught at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, to his retirement. Died 1978.
Writings about
- , ‘Germany’ (travel posters), Modern Publicity, 1938-39, p. 78
- , 1962
- Hannes Neuner und seine Grundlehre, Berlin: Bauhaus-Arhiv, 1973
- , 2000.
- , ‘H.F. Neuner’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Nov. 1936, pp. 8-13
Exhibitions
- Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 1973.