Georg Belwe (12 August 1878 – 1954) was a German

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Personal information

Belwe was born on 8 December 1878 in

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. He studied and later taught at the teaching institute of Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in his native Berlin.

Career

1900

In 1900, with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, he founded Steglitzer Werkstadt, a private press. This same year he joins the Kunstgewerbeschule as a teacher in Berlin.

1906

In 1906 he became head of typography department and the class for accurate drawing at the Leipzig Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe.

Productions

Belwe has produced numerous works for publishing houses which include: *List *Reclam *Eugen Diederichs *Westermann

Publications

His publications include: *Albert Mundt "Georg Belwe und seine Klasse an der Königlichen Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe" in "Archiv für Buchgewerbe" In June 1910.

Death

Belwe died in Ronneburg, Germany in 1954.

Fonts Designed by Georg Belwe

* Belwe Roman (

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, 1907) * Belwe Gotisch (1912) * Belwe Schrägschrift (1913) * Belwe halbfett (1914) * Wieland (

, 1926) * Fleischman ( L. Wagner Type Foundry, 1927), based on the eighteenth century designs of

Joan Michaël Fleischman Joan Michaël Fleischman (1707–27 May 1768, german: Johann Michael Fleischmann), was an 18th-century German-Dutch typographer and punchcutter. Fleischman worked in the Baroque period of design and his roman typefaces have been described as ...

* Schönschrift Mozart (1927) * Shakespere Medaeval (

, 1927–1929)

Sources

* Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. ''The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. . * Friedl, Ott, and Stein, ''Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History.'' Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. . * Macmillsn, Niel, ''An A-Z of Type Designers,'' Yale University Press, 2006.

References

1875 births 1954 deaths German graphic designers German typographers and type designers People from Berlin {{Germany-artist-stub