Eugene Kuhn

Eugen Kuhn (born May 3, 1895 in Sins in Freiamt ; † April 11, 1970 in Zofingen ) was a Swiss teacher and type artist.

Life

Eugen Kuhn grew up in Sins in Freiamt and entered the Wettingen seminar in 1911 , where he trained as a teacher. In 1925 he was elected to the school of Zofingen. He used his free time for his writing. Eugen Kuhn later worked as a type artist with Rudolf Koch from Offenbach, who was also his teacher.

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Canon for four voices by Christoph Preatorius, cut into wood by Eugen Kuhn

In cooperation with Rudolf Koch, certificates, book titles, newspaper heads, posters and family trees were created. In addition, Eugen Kuhn in Zofingen designed the cover of the Zofinger New Year's Gazette for years, created tapes for the new bells for the city church and cut all the wooden sticks for the Zofingen coat of arms.

In 1931 negotiations began in German-speaking Switzerland about a uniform school script, in which Eugen Kuhn played a decisive role. He was co-author of the teaching aid “ Writing ” and himself developed a “writing aid” and “instructions for markup fonts”, both of which helped the Swiss school typeface to break through. Eugen Kuhn then also played an important role as writing teacher at the Aarau seminar in order to further spread his work.

Eugen Kuhn's estate is in the Zofingen city archive.

literature

• Richard Haller: Estate of Eugen Kuhn, 1895-1970, teacher and type artist in Zofingen . In: Zofinger Neujahrsblatt. 56 (1971)
• Eugen Kuhn, Kantonaler Lehrmittelverlag Aargau (Hrsg.): The Swiss school writing in the canton Aargau , Ringier & Co AG, Zofingen 1939
• Karl Eigenmann, Eugen Kuhn: Writing , Ernst Ingold & Co, Herzogenbuchsee 1948
• Beat Hodler: Young School - Long History. The New Cantonal School Aarau, Baden 2014, pp. 109–113.