Klingspor Brothers
Gebr. Klingspor was a type foundry in Offenbach am Main , which was run by the businessman Karl Klingspor and his brother Wilhelm Klingspor . Along with H. Berthold AG , the Bauersche Gießerei and D. Stempel AG, it was one of the most important German font manufacturers of the 20th century.
Companies
The company emerged from the takeover of the Rudhard'sche foundry by Carl Klingspor in 1892. This was founded in 1842 by Philipp Rudhard, Johann Peter Nees and Michael Huck. Klingspor's sons Karl and Wilhelm managed the foundry, which was renamed Gebr. Klingspor in 1904 (other sources 1906). In 1907 the company was one of the twelve companies that helped found the Deutscher Werkbund .
Karl Klingspor had fonts designed by well-known artists and designers such as Peter Behrens , Otto Eckmann , Otto Hupp , Rudolf Koch , Gerhard Munthe and Walter Tiemann and supplied print shops worldwide.
From 1917, D. Stempel AG took a share in the company. Since 1925, in addition to lead casting, wooden fonts and type boxes and shelves have been produced and a chemical-graphic institute has been set up. The type artist Wilhelm Klingspor died in the same year. The company was destroyed in bombing raids in 1944 and numerous templates were destroyed. In 1950 Karl Klingspor died and his nephew Karl Hermann took over the management of the company. Fonts were discontinued in 1956 and some of the fonts were adopted by D. Stempel. Until the bankruptcy in 1984, the company still worked as a graphic art institute. The artistic rights to the typefaces that were transferred to the company Stempel are now owned by the Linotype company in Bad Homburg, which took over the company Stempel in 1985.
museum
The library from Karl Klingspor's estate formed the basis for the foundation of the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main in 1953.
Some fonts
- Eckmann by Otto Eckmann, 1901
- Behrensschrift by Peter Behrens, 1902
- Windisch italics by Albert Windisch , 1917
- Cable by Rudolf Koch, 1927
- Koch Antiqua by Rudolf Koch, 1922
- Rudolf Koch's new territory , 1928
- Offizin by Walter Tiemann, 1952
- Salto by Karlgeorg Hoefer , 1952
- Wilhelm Klingspor by Rudolf Koch, before 1933 (Gothic Gothic script named after Wilhelm Klingspor, originally planned as Missal or Sebaldus ).
literature
- Andreas Hansert : Offenbach am Main. Culture in the wake of National Socialism. Applied Arts School, German Leather Museum, Klingspor font foundry. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-2052089-6-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ deutscher-werkbund.de ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Chronicle of the type foundry Gebr. Klingspor (PDF file; 1.4 MB)
- Klingspor Brothers. Font of the Klingspormuseum Offenbach (PDF file; 952 kB)