Heinz Renz

Biography

Typography, lettering. Born Heinz-Ulrich Renz 3 April 1922 in Bielefeld. 1937-9: studied commercial art at the Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks, Bielefeld. 1939-41: apprenticed as a letterer and lithographer. Immediately after the war, he worked in the Printing Stationery Officeof the British Army (occupying authority). 1947-51: studied at the Stuttgart Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste: teachers included F.H. Ernst Schneidler and Walter Brudi. From 1957: freelanced in Stuttgart, particularly for publishers.

Writings about

  • Vollmer, 1958.
  • Ludwig Ebenhöh, ‘Heinz Renz’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., July 1957, pp. 50-53