Erik Nitsche (1908 – 1998) was born and studied in Lausanne, Switzerland, and moved to the United States at the age of 26, where he had a successful career working as an art director, book designer, illustrator, typographer, graphic designer, photographer, advertiser, and packaging designer. His graphic design work included magazine covers, signage, film, exhibitions, posters and many other advertising mediums.
His work has a distinctly modernist aesthetic and although he never had the opportunity to attend the Bauhaus Laszlo Moholy-Nagy has been quoted as saying, “Who is this guy that is doing the Bauhaus in New York?”
Interesting reading: Erik Nitsche: The Reluctant Modernist Erik Nitsche on iconofgraphics.com