Walter Baum (23 May 1921 – 8 March 2007) was a German
type designer
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,
graphic artist and
teacher
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. Baum trained as a typesetter from 1935 to 1939. He resumed his studies after
World War II
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before becoming head of the graphics studio at the
Bauer Type Foundry in 1948. There, he collaborated with
Konrad Friedrich Bauer
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in designing many typefaces, including Fortune, the first
Clarendon typeface with a matching italic. From 1972 to 1986 he was director of the
Kunstschule Westend in
Frankfurt am Main
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.
Fonts Designed by Walter Baum
![Impressum Bauer-Baum 1963 Letterpress](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Impressum_Bauer-Baum_1963_Letterpress.jpg)
All faces were designed in collaboration with Konrad Friedrich Bauer.
* Alpha (Bauer, 1954)
* Beta (Bauer, 1954), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.
*
Folio
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(Bauer and
Intertype, 1956–63), also sold as ''Caravelle'' by
Founderie Typographique Francaise.
* Imprimatur (Bauer, and Intertype, 1952–55) also sold as ''Horizon'' by Founderie Typographique Francaise
* Fortune or ''Volta'' (Bauer 1955)
* Impressum (
Amsterdam Type foundry and Bauer 1962)
References
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1921 births
German graphic designers
German typographers and type designers
2007 deaths
People from Gummersbach
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