Louis Oppenheim (1879–1936) was a German graphic artist, painter and type designer. Weimar Republik 50 Pfg 1919 D Al- Coin

Born in

Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it ...

, Oppenheim studied in London from 1899 to 1906. He moved to

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and started his work as a graphic artist in 1910, signing his work with his initials, "LO" and working for clients such as AES, the

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, Persil and Adrema. His posters are considered a significant product of the 'Berlin poster style'. Oppenheim worked for the type foundry Berthold and created a handful of significant and widespread

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands o ...

s, all of which share

modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

characteristics, such as

Lo-Type Lo-Type (sometimes Lo-type, or Lo Type; originally Lo-Schrift) is a display typeface originally designed by Louis Oppenheim. Oppenheim named the font using his own initials which he also used to sign his work. Oppenheim designed the avant-garde Lo- ...

and Fanfare which are still in wide use today. Also, he designed the first

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of the

Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is ...

in 1919.

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German typographers and type designers German graphic designers German poster artists 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 1879 births 1936 deaths {{germany-painter-stub

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