Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry

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J.G. Schelter & Giesecke
Company type Aktiengesellschaft
Industry Type foundry
Founded1819
Founder Johann Schelter, Christian Giesecke
Defunct1946
Headquarters Leipzig, Germany
Key people
 Georg Belwe

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. [1]

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Typefaces

A poster for the International Bartenders Association competition of 1965 uses the company's popular Breite halbfette Grotesk. Logotipo ICC Buenos Aires 1965.JPG
A poster for the International Bartenders Association competition of 1965 uses the company's popular Breite halbfette Grotesk.

These foundry types were produced by Schelter & Giesecke: [1]

The foundry claimed by the twentieth century to have been one of the first to offer general-purpose sans-serif typefaces with lower-case, as early as 1825. [10] [11] This was repeated by some authors, but is now known to be untrue: Wolfgang Homola dates it to 1882 based on a study of Schelter & Giesecke specimens. [2] [a]

Press Manufacturing

Villa Georg Giesecke, the Leipzig house of foundry co-owner Georg Giesecke Leipzig Villa Georg Giesecke-01.jpg
Villa Georg Giesecke, the Leipzig house of foundry co-owner Georg Giesecke

Beginning in 1827 Schelter & Giesecke manufactured letterpress presses, cylinder proof presses and platen presses; and after World War I also of web-fed, letterpress and flexo printing presses.

The Leipzig house of foundry co-owner Georg Giesecke, designed by Berlin architect Max Hasak, survives and is listed. [14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "J.G. Schelter&Giesecke". Luc Devroye. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 Homola, Wolfgang. "Type design in the age of the machine. The 'Breite Grotesk' by J. G. Schelter & Giesecke" (PDF). University of Reading (archived). Archived from the original on 12 January 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 5.
  4. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 19.
  5. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 263.
  6. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 109.
  7. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 67.
  8. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 201.
  9. ↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN   0-7137-1347-X p. 205.
  10. ↑ Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, ISBN   0-87923-333-8, p. 296.
  11. ↑ Handbuch der Schriftarten. Leipzig: Seeman. 1926.
  12. ↑ Mosley, James. "Comments on Typophile thread - "Unborn: sans serif lower case in the 19th century"". Typophile (archived). Archived from the original on 28 June 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. ↑ Tracy, Walter. Letters of Credit. p. 86.
  14. ↑ Sabine Knopf (2011). Buchstadt Leipzig: der historische Reiseführer. Ch. Links Verlag. pp. 80–81. ISBN   978-3-86153-634-5.
  1. ↑ Walter Tracy also comments that the claimed date is "forty years too early" and James Mosley describes it as "thoroughly discredited". [12] [13]
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