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ARMIN HOFMANN AND
DISENTIS
DISENTIS SCHOOL MURALS
Basel, Switzerland
Armin Hofmann (b. 1920), Designer
Zurich, Switzerland
1975
Armin Hofmann (b. 1920) began his career in
1947 as a teacher at the Allegmeine Gewer-
beschule Basel School of Art and Crafts (later
known as Schule fur Gestaltung or AGS) at the
early age of twenty-six. He followed Emil Ruder
(1914–1970), Swiss typographer, graphic de-
signer, and educator, as the head of its graphic
design department and was instrumental in
developing the graphic design style known as
the International Style or Swiss School.
For more than forty years, Hofmann
devoted his life to teaching art, design, ...