Theo Ballmer

Théophile August BALLMER was born in 1902 in Basel, where he lived until his death in 1965. After his education as a lithographer and graphic designer and a job at Hofmann-La Roche, he moved on to work at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928. After its closure in 1930, he returned to Switzerland and became the leading teacher for the typography and graphic design classes a the art school in Basel. He made a name for himself as a freelance graphic designerand was known in particular famous for his clear typographic style.

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