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Johann Naha (January 3, 1902 - April 16, 1982) was an Estonian graphic designer and consumer graphic designer.

Biography
Johan Naha was born in Riga, Latvia in 1902.

From 1923 to 1929, Johann Naha studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn (then the Industrial Art School), where he was a student of Günther Reindorff. He then studied in in Paris, Berlin and other European cities including the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

He left Estonia in 1944. From 1945, he worked in Munich, as a freelance artist. He was one of the founders of the collective of applied artists, Dekoor, and was a member of RaKÜ from 1933 and from 1953 the München Graphic Arts Society.

He died in Munich in 1982.