The Reimann School of Art and Design was a private art school which was founded in Berlin in 1902 by

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, and re-established in Regency Street, Pimlico, London in January 1937 after persecution by the

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. It was the first commercial art school in Britain. The school closed at the outbreak of

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and its premises were subsequently destroyed by bombing.

Notable staff

Staff in Berlin included

Walter Peterhans Walter Peterhans (12 June 1897 – 12 April 1960) was a German photographer best known as a teacher and course leader of photography at the Bauhaus from 1929 until 1933, and at the Reimann School in Berlin under Hugo Häring. In the 1930s Peterh ...

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. In London, (Florence) Louise Clarke Aldred (1910–1997) was head of textiles from 1939.

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taught poster design and another poster designer, Austin Cooper, was principal. Other staff included Walter Nurnberg (a student from the Berlin school), Richard Hamilton,

Leonard Rosoman Leonard Rosoman (27 October 1913 – 21 February 2012) was a British artist. Early life Rosoman was born in London and educated at the Deacon's school, Peterborough, and then at the King Edward VII school of art in Newcastle upon Tyne, under ...

, Eric Fraser,

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and Merlyn Evans.

Alumni

The school's alumni included :

Berlin

Jacqueline Diffring Jacqueline Diffring (7 February 1920 – 28 September 2020) was a German-British sculptor. She was also the sister of actor Anton Diffring. Life and work Diffring was born in Koblenz, Germany in February 1920. She began her artistic studies as ...

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* Elisabeth Meyer * Walter Nurnberg *

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (4 January 1899 – 25 September 1944), born Alma Buscher, was a German designer. She trained at the Reimann School in Berlin, the ''Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin'' and the Bauhaus. Life and work Alma Bu ...

* Henry Talbot * Mauricio Amster

London

* Bruce Angrave *

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Dorrit Dekk Dorrit Dekk, born Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann, (18 May 1917 – 29 December 2014) was a Czech-born British graphic designer, printmaker and painter. Early life Dekk was born in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia and trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule, ...

Eileen Evans Eileen Margaret Evans (8 November 1921 - August 2006) was a British graphic designer who co-founded the Mount/Evans design studio with graphic designer, Reginald Mount after World War II. Biography Evans studied commercial art at the Reimann ...

* Richard Hamilton *

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* Jon Miller *

Hans Arnold Rothholz Hans Arnold Rothholz (1919–2000) was a poster designer and graphic artist born in Dresden, Germany who immigrated to Britain in 1933. As a friend and colleague of Tom Eckersley, George Him and Abram Games, Rothholz belonged to a generation of des ...

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The Reimann School: A Design Diaspora, Yasuku Suga, Artmonsky Arts (2014) *

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References

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Notable staff

Alumni

Berlin

London

Further reading

References