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@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:39 PM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1951
Illustration by Walter Allner (1909-2006 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1951
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WalterAllner #graphicdesign

Walter Allner (1909-2006) 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. During his 12 years at Fortune, in addition to maintaining the magazine’s Bauhaus-inspired contemporary typography and elegant overall design scheme, he personally created 79 covers, which ran the gamut from minimalist graphic abstraction to complex photographic collage. image & words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html
@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 8:51 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1953
‘Wonder-Drug Trouble at Parke, Davis’
Cover illustration by Walter Heinz Allner (1909-2006 👉ALT)
#FortuneCover #Illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WalterAllner #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #PharmaceuticalIndustry #ParkeDavis

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html ‘Allner was a designer, typographer and painter who pioneered computer-designed magazine layout. He collaborated with engineers to develop technology-aided design. In the late 1920s he studied at the Dessau Bauhaus. His teachers included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Joost Schmidt and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. During his 12 years at Fortune masgazine, in addition to maintaining the magazine’s Bauhaus-inspired contemporary typography and elegant overall design scheme, he personally created 79 covers, which ran the gamut from minimalist graphic abstraction to complex photographic collage. ...Allner also worked as an abstract painter (influenced by Josef Albers) and created enigmatic refuse-assemblages. ...’ http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/agent/627#:~:text=Allner%20was%20a%20designer%2C%20typographer,Schmidt%20and%20Laszlo%20Moholy%2DNagy.