Edmund Thiele (punch cutter)
Edmund Thiele (born April 25, 1872 in Berlin , † March 17, 1953 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German die cutter .
Life
After an apprenticeship as a die cutter in Berlin, Edmund Thiele joined the Bauersche foundry in Frankfurt am Main in 1891 . From 1921 to 1952 he worked at the Haas'schen type foundry in Münchenstein . Thiele was involved in the revisions of various old scripts. For Haas he created a new cut of Bodoni (1924) and the Nuremberg Schwabacher (1927) based on types brought to Basel by Johann Wilhelm Haas in 1718 . Other typefaces designed by Thiele include Superba (1934) and Commercial-Grotesk (1940).
According to Heinrich Fleischhacker, Edmund Thiele was one of the last creatively active die cutters.
Web links
- Edmund Thiele. In: klingspor-museum.de. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Fleischhacker: 400 years of Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei AG. Review - present - outlook . In: Librarium . tape 27 , no. 1 , 1984, p. 49-68, p. 53 ( e-periodica.ch ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiele, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German die cutter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1953 |
| Place of death | Offenbach am Main |