Carl Renner

Carl Renner was born in Germany and raised in Detroit, Michigan after his family immigrated to the United States in 1927. At age 20, he began his design career working as an animator for Walt Disney Studios in California. After a year, Renner returned to Detroit, seeking a job designing cars for General Motors (GM) during the postwar automobile boom. He was hired in April 1945 to work as a Junior Designer in GM’s Orientation Studio alongside other young designers like Pete Wozena and was one of the first new designers hired by General Motors after World War II. Renner enrolled in the Detroit Institute of Automobile Styling (DIAS), a special school operated by Harley Earl and Richard Arbib. Upon... more.

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