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Leading German calligrapher, designer, typographer and type designer active from 1914 to 1934, primarily with the Klingspor foundry. His artistic estate is now housed in the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach.
2014-06-23 08:43:41
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Director of the Klingspor foundry in Offenbach from 1892, his brother Wilhelm joining him in 1895. He died in 1950. In 1953 the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach opened, based on Klingspor’s private collection of items related to the book arts. It now ho
2013-08-26 18:51:04
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Son of the prolific type designer Rudolf Koch, Paul was a skilled punchcutter who cut type designed by his father, and by others including Victor Hammer, for whom he worked in Florence, and Berthold Wolpe. On his father’s death in 1934 he took over t
2013-05-06 21:46:14
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Wilhelm Klingspor is a type designer, from Germany.
2013-01-11 06:45:02
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Contemporary Swiss graphic designer, typographer and type designer of imagination and consummate craftsmanship, associated with Deberny & Peignot, Bauer and Linotype.In 1987 he was awarded the TDC Medal, the award from the Type Directors Club present
2012-06-15 20:28:29
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German architect and designer, working mainly for AEG in Berlin. From 1903 to 1914 (from 1907 as their architect and artistic director) he designed for AEG a factory, designed domestic electrical equipment (including kettles and fans), and created wh
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