Trajanus Press

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The Trajan press was a 1951 existing to 1977 Verlag in Frankfurt am Main , where as works of book art artistically designed and book illustrations provided Pressendrucke appeared.

history

The Trajanus Press was founded in 1951 by the Swiss book designer and poet Gotthard de Beauclair (1907–1992). The type foundry D. Stempel AG provided the spatial and publishing framework . In the same year, De Beauclair was appointed artistic director of the type foundry alongside Hermann Zapf and Georg Kurt Schauer . At the same time he was artistic director of Insel-Verlag in Wiesbaden.

The workshop prints were in the hand set in the print shop of D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt Hedderichstraße on handmade paper printed, usually after the draft de Beauclairs. The most beautiful fonts from the foundry were presented.

Prints from the Trajanus Press

The first print was published in January 1951 with "Strange Walk" by Johann Peter Hebel , set in the original Janson italics with drawings by Robert Pudlich .

In 1952 the 2nd print appeared: Vom Alinsein, Ein Brief RM Rilke , the 4th print was cut into metal by August Rosenberger and contained with pen and graver , alphabets and writing sheets by Hermann Zapf . The 5th print Trilussa, The Converted Snake and twenty-seven other fables was transferred from the Roman folk dialect Hans von Hülsen and was provided with drawings by Werner vom Scheidt and headings from the brush script Balzac .

In the 5th print and the 6th print of the Trajanus Press, published in 1953, the font Diotima by Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse was used for the first time as a manual typesetting: Plus ultra , a story by Gertrud von Le Fort and the journey to the eleven executioners by Hans Carossa . Both books were awarded prizes in the 1954 The Most Beautiful Books of 1955 competition . In 1954 the novella Die Drei Falken by Werner Bergengruen with four-color woodcuts by Felix Hoffmann was published as the 7th print of the Trajanus Press .

Twenty prints had appeared by 1977. Edition Tiessen's workshop prints , hand-set by Wolfgang Tiessen , were also produced in the Trajanus press workshop up to No. 47.

literature

  • Albert Spindler, Günter H. Seidel: Types: Press prints of the German-speaking area since 1945 , Merlin, 1988, p. 97 f
  • Gert Fischer, Heinz Richter: Gotthard de Beauclair: book designer, poet, publisher 1907-1992; Life and Work , Stadtmuseum Siegburg, 1996, p. 159

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