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The typedesigners in alphabetical order

Albert Auspurg
10 March 1868-19 April 1943

Germany
trained as a Lithographer, went off on his travels to France, Belgium and Italy, from 1894 as a freelancer at Leipzig

Mona Lisa 1930

John Baskerville
29.January 1706-18 January 1757

Great Britain

Baskerville Monotype Corp 1923

Baskerville, D. Stempel 1925

Friedrich Bauer
26 October 1863-1943

Germany
Typesetter and on his travels, chief of the printing office at Schelter & Giesecke Leipzig, after that chief of the printing office at Genzsch & Heyse for 13 years, has written books on typesetting and printing as wall as on the history of type casting.

Buergerschaftsfraktur 1907
 

Genzsch-Antiqua 1906

 

Fortuna 1930

Georg Belwe
12 August 1878-1954

Germany
went in 1906 as a teacher at the Academy of Graphiy Arts and Bokkmakung at Leipzig

Mozart Schoenschrift 1927

Lucian Bernhard
15 March 1883-29 Mai 1972

Geramy/USA
mainly self-tought, from 1923 in New York

Lucian 1928

Bernhard-Antiqua 1911

Bernhard-Schoenschrift 1925

Giambattista Bodoni
26 February 1740-30 November 1813

Italy
famous for his straight foreward design without any decoration

Walter Brudi
24 January 1907-9 Dezember 1987

Germany
1924-1928 student with F. H. Ernst Schneidler at Stuttgart, 1949-1973 Professor in Book Graphics and Typography at  Academy of the Fine Arts at Stuttgart

Brudi medieval kursiv 1954
 

Brudi medieval 1954
Bauer Bodoni 1925/26

 

Max Caflisch
25 October 1916-3 March 2004

Switzerland

Columna 1952

Warren Chapell
1904-1991

USA
1931-1932 traiend as a typedesigner by Rudolf Koch

Trajanus 1939

P. A. Demeter
10 January 1875-23 May 1939

 

Lichte Hollaendisch 1922

Arno Drescher
17 March 1882-1 June 1971

Germany
1940-1945 Direktor of the Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking at  Leipzig

Arabella 1936

Heinrich Ehlert

 

Gronau Gotisch 1890

 

Jakob Erbar
2 August 1878-1 July 1935

Germay
Typesetter, trained in typedesign  by Fritz H. Ehmke, after having been on his travels as a typesetter at DuMont, from 1924 teaching

Candida 1936
 

Erbar Grotesk 1927
 

Grotesk lichtfett earlier than 1923

Roger Excoffon
7 September 1910-1983

France
studied laws, after that he studied painting, graphic designer, 1945-1959 also artistic consultant for foundry Olive at Marseille

Mistral 1953

Alfred Finsterer
1908-1996

Germany
1935-1945 Professor in woodcut at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Bookmaking at Leipzig, 1947-1973 artistic consultant at Reclam-Publishing House, until 1956 also consultant at Klingspor

Duo Licht 1954
 

Duo Dunkel 1954
 

Titula 1956 (private)

Francois Ganeau
1912-1980

France
Painter, sculptoter, graphic designer, scene painter -
 the designed Vendôme together with Roger Excoffon, who designed Mistral also.

Vendôme 1951

Claude Garamond
presumably 1499-1561

France
type caster and printer at Paris

Garamond

Victor Hammer

9 December 1882-10 July 1967

Austria/USA

Dismissed in 1938 as Professor at  Wiener Akademie, he emigrated to USA, where he tought typedesign. Read more.

Hammerschrift

Karlgeorg Hoefer
6 February 1914-8 October 2000

Germany
Trained and worked as a typesetter, military service,from 1939 trained to become a graphic designer, from 1946 teacher at what was to become the Werkkunstschule/Hochschule for Design at Offenbach

Permanent 1962-1979

 

Walter Hoehnisch
14 Februar 1906

Germany

Candida kursiv 1937
 

Hallo kursiv 1959
 

Skizze 1935
 

Tempo 1930

Walter Jacobs
26 October 1891

Germany
Lithographer

Decorated Chronika 1930ies

Heinrich Jost
13 October 1889 - 25 September 1948

Germany

Beton bold 1931

Karl Klauss
1888-1956

Germany

Adagio 1953
 

Arkona 1935

Rudolf Koch
20 November 1876-9 April 1934

Germany
trained to become an engraver (1892-1896), trained to become a teacher in drawing (1896-1897), from 1906 at Rudhard foundry (later Gebr. Klingspor)

Claudius 1937
 

Koch Antiqua 1922
 

Wallau 1930
 

Wilhelm-Klinspor-Schrift 1925

Otto Freiherr von Kress

 

Kress-Capitals 1926

Hans Kuehne
30 May 1910-21 August 1961

Germany
Bank clerk, from 1929 at Braunschweig and Offenbach (Rudolf Koch and Ernst Engel) trained in typedesign, 1939 soldier, from 1945 freelancer, from 1958 teacher for typedesign at Hamburg

Stahl 1939

Hans Helmut Matheis
1917

Germany
1945-1947 trained by Prof. F. H. Ehmcke

Charme 1957

Verona 1958

Max Miedinger
24 December 1910-8 March 1980

Switzerland

Helvetica from 1957 onwards

Hans Karl Gustav Moehring
29 November 1894-21 May 1958

Germany
1912-1914 and 1919-1920 trained at the Academies for Graphic Arts at  Leipzig and Berlin

Florida 1932
 

Gabriele 1938

Heinrich Pauser
2 July 1899 - 6 October 1989

Germany

Semper-Antiqua 1941

Herbert Post
13 January 1903-17 July 1978

Germany
trained by Rudolf Koch, 1926 teacher at Burg Giebichenstein, 1950 Professor at Halle, founded Herbert Post Printing Office, followed Georg Trump in 1956 as Director of the Akademy for Graphic Crafts

Post Antiqua 1939
 

Post Fraktur 1935
 

Post Versal 1932

Werner Rebhuhn
1 May 1922-23 January 2001

Germany
1940-1944 trained at Hamburg by Carl Otto Czeschka, many book cover designs for various publishing houses: Rowohlt, S. Fischer, Ullstein, Piper and Hoffmann & Campe

Fox 1953
 

Hobby 1955

Imre Reiner
18.August 1900-21 August 1987

Hungary/Germany/Italy
from 1921 trained at Stuttgart by Prof. F. H. Ernst Schneidler, 1923-1925 graphic designer at London, Paris, New York and Chicago, from 1931 painter, graphic designer and illustrator at Lugano

Mercurius 1957

Paul Renner
9 August 1878-25 April 1956

Germany/Switzerland
tought at various schools grahic design and typography, was dismissed in 1933 and left Germany to stay in Switzerland for a year, since 1934 painter at Hoedingen
 

Futura 1950

Johannes Anton Hieronymus (Hiero) Rhode
1902-1954

Germany
trained as a graphic designer by the painters Adolf Behrmann und Fritz Kirchbach, from 1923 working for quill makers Heintze & Blankertz at Berlin

Hiero-Rhode 1944

Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler
14 February 1882-7 January 1956

Germany
trained by Peter Behrens und Fritz H. Ehmke, 1920 as a teacher at Stuttgart’s Academy of the Fine Arts, 1921 he founds his printing office Juniperus-Presse

Deutsch Roemisch bold 1930

Deutsch Roemisch 1923

Peter Schneidler

Germany
son of F. H. E. Schneidler

Maxim 1956

Ilse Schuele,
17 June 1903-4 December 1997

Germany

Rhapsodie 1951

Joachim Julius Siercke

Germany

Privat 1966

Walter Tiemann
29 January 1876-12 September 1951

Germany
1903 Professor at the Akademy for the Graphic Arts and Bookmaking at Leipzig, from 1920 to 1941 and 1945 to 1946 Director

Kleist Fraktur 1928

Georg Trump
10 July 1896-21 December 1985

Germany
from 1920 Assistant to Prof. E. H. Schneidler at Stuttgart, 1934 director of the masterschool for Germanys Letterpress Printers

Amati 1951

Trump Medieval 1954

Delphin 1951
 

Forum I 1948
 

Forum II 1952
 

Schadow 1939-1952
 

Schadow Werk

Time Script 1956
 

Trump Deutsch 1937

 

 

Johann Friedrich Unger
1753-1804

Germany
in 1780 he builds up his own printing office at Berlin and in 1791 a type foundry, 1800 Professor in Woodcut at the Academy at Berlin

Unger Fraktur

Walter Wege
9 February 1894-17 January 1972

Germany
cartographer, during the 1920ies working for AEG later as a freelancer

Signal 1931

Emil Rudolf Weiss
12 October 1875-7 November 1942

Germany
was forced to retire in 1933
 

Weiss-Antiqua 1928

Weiss-Kapitale 1931
 

Weiss-Lapidar 1931

Martin Wilke
1903-1993

Germany

Palette 1951

Carl Winckow
6 February 1882-16 Januar 1952

Geramny/Spain
u. a. at foundries Berthold, Genzsch & Heyse and Klingspor

Reporter 1938

Rudolf Wolf
1895-7 September 1942

Germany
from 1922 advertising manager at D. Stempel AG

Memphis 1929-1943

Berthold Wolpe
29 October 1905-5 July 1989

Germany/Great Britain

was banned from his occupation in 1935 and left Germany for London
1983 Order of the British Empire

Deutschmeister 1934

Hermann Zapf
8 November 1918

Germany

Optima 1958

 

 

There are biographical data of more than 2.000 artists at Klingspor’s archive
Klingspor-Museum

 

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