 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (January 2021)Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Peter A. Demeter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 January 1875 |
| Died | 23 May 1938 (aged 63) |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | typography |
Peter A. Demeter was a German designer at the Weber Typefoundry. [1]
The Fonderie Olive, in English, Olive Foundry, was a small but high-profile type foundry located in Marseille, France. It is best known for the work of the typeface designer Roger Excoffon. In 1978 the foundry was acquired by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company which transferred photocomposition rights for all faces to Haas.
Grafotechna was a Czechoslovak type foundry, created in 1951. It ceased to exist after 1990. It was the only manufacturer of metal types in the former Czechoslovakia.
Fundición Tipográfica Nacional or the Nacional Typefoundry was for many years the leading type foundry of Spain. It was founded in Madrid in 1915 and functioned there until bought out by Fundición Tipográfica Neufville of Barcelona in 1971. It employed prestigious designers like Carlos Winkow and Enric Crous-Vidal and was noted for its bold and striking art deco faces.
Carl Winckow known in Spain, where he spent most of his working life, as Carlos Winkow was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Nacional Typefoundry.
Ludwig & Mayer was a German type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important designers worked for the Ludwig and Mayer type foundry, including Heinrich Jost, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Helmut Matheis, and most notably Jakob Erbar, whose Erbar Book was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years. Starting in 1925, Ludwig & Mayer types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association. When the foundry ceased operations in 1984, rights to the typefaces was transmitted to the Neufville Typefoundry.
D. Stempel AG was a German typographic foundry founded by David Stempel (1869–1927), in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important font designers worked for the Stempel foundry, including Hans Bohn, Warren Chappell, F. H. Ehmcke, Friedrich Heinrichsen, Hanns Th. Hoyer, F. W. Kleukens, Erich Meyer, Hans Möhring, Hiero Rhode, Wilhelm Schwerdtner, Herbert Thannhaeuser, Martin Wilke, Rudolf Wolf, Victor Hammer, Hermann Zapf, and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. With the introduction of Memphis in 1929, the foundry was the first to cast modern slab serif typefaces.
Jakob Erbar was a German professor of graphic design and a type designer. Erbar trained as a typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg Printing Works before studying under Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Erbar went on to teach in 1908 at the Städtischen Berufsschule and from 1919 to his death at the Kölner Werkschule. His seminal Erbar series was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years.
J.G. Schelter & Giesecke was a German type foundry and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in Leipzig by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Friedrich Giesecke (1793-1850). The foundry was nationalized in 1946 by the new German Democratic Republic, forming VEB Typoart, Dresden.
C.E. Weber was a German type foundry established in 1827 in Stuttgart. Noted designers working for the foundry included Georg Trump, and Ernst Schneidler. The foundry closed in 1970; some designs passed to the Johannes Wagner Type Foundry, others to Stempel.
Johannes Wagner, Inh. was a type foundry created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry and most of those from Berthold. The company, by then named Letternservice Ingolstadt, closed in 2002, and its printing assets were moved to the printing museum in Leipzig.
Otto Arpke was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line. He designed one type face, Arpke Antiqua which is available in digital form as Taiko.
The Berling Type Foundry was a Danish type foundry established before 1750 in Copenhagen. Johann Gottfried Pöetzsch was manager of the Berling typefoundry from 1753 until his death in 1783. The foundry was reëstablished in Lund, Sweden in 1837 and cast foundry type until 1980.
Fonderie Typographique Française was a French type foundry. Founded in Paris in 1921 following the merger of the Turlot, Durey & Berthier, Renault & Marcou, Huart, Chaix, and Saling type foundries. In 1969 it moved to Champigny-sur-Marne and took the name "Société Nouvelle de la Fonderie Typographique Française". Sold in 1974 to the Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, in Barcelona
Warnery was a type foundry.
Schriftguss AG was a type foundry in Germany founded in 1892 under the name Brüder Butter by purchasing the type casting firm of Otto Ludwig Bechert that had been founded in 1889. It was later incorporated in 1922 as Schriftguss A.-G. vorm. [prev.] Brüder Butter. Their types were known for “vigour, liveliness and freshness.” Though some faces were done in house, the foundry mainly worked with outside “Schriftkünstler”, more than was typical at the time. A unique product of the foundry were modular systems of “Plakattype” to compose shapes and letterforms for display and jobbing applications, for instance Dekora, or Albert Auspurg’s 1931 Ne-Po (negative–positive), and finally Super-Plakattype in 1949. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 the last of the Butter brothers resigned from the corporation and it was changed to a limited partnership. In 1948 the company was expropriated by the post-war communist government and became public property, under the name VEB Schriftguss Dresden, eventually becoming merged into VEB Typoart – Drucktypen, Matrizen, Messinglinien in 1951. As a state run enterprise, the foundry lost its verve and panache and settled into producing serviceable type without distinction.
J. D. Trennert and Son was a German type foundry established in Altona.
Della Robbia is a typeface designed by Thomas Maitland Cleland (1880–1964) in 1902 for American Type Founders (ATF). It was designed to be a careful and scholarly creation of a typeface from 15th Century Florentine inscriptional capitals. It was named after Luca Della Robbia, a Florentine sculptor.
Martin Wilke (1903–1993) was a German type designer, mostly of script faces. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts or School of Applied Arts in Berlin in 1921. After 1923, he was hired by studio of Wilhelm Deffke and later became an independent graphic designer.
Arnold Drescher was trained as a teacher in Auerbach in 1896 and later studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1905 to 1907 where he became a specialised instructor for art teachers, becoming a professor in 1920. As well as working freelance as a designer, he was also employed by the Staatliche Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe. Between 1940 and 1945, he was the Academy's director. As well as being a typographer, he was a prolific painter and illustrator, designing posters for the East German government. In 1960 he retired to Braunschweig where he later died.
Max Salzmann was a German designer at the Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry. He immigrated to the United States.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This biographical article about a graphic designer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This typography-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
