Rudolf Koch
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Germany
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calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher
Teacher
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, born in Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
. He was primarily a calligrapher with the Gebr. Klingspor foundry. He created several typeface
Typeface
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s, in both fraktur and roman
Roman type
In typography, roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic. Roman type was modelled from a European scribal manuscript style of the 1400s, based on the pairing of inscriptional capitals used in ancient Rome with Carolingian minuscules developed in the...
styles. Fritz Kredel
Fritz Kredel
Fritz Kredel was a German graphic designer who was born in Michelstadt-im-Odenwald. In his early years, he studied under Rudolf Koch at Offenbach School of Design, and developed skills in woodcuts. Koch and Kredel collaborated on A Book of Signs and The Book of Flowers...
studied under Koch at the Offenbach School of Design.
Koch wrote a book containing 493 old-world symbols, monograms and runes entitled The Book of Signs (reprinted in 1955, in the Dover
Dover Publications
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Pictorial Archive Series). He had also a column in the magazine Die zeitgemäße Schrift, a magazine of design published by Heintze & Blanckertz
Heintze & Blanckertz
Heintze & Blanckertz was the first German manufacturer of dip pens. It was founded in 1842 in Oranienburg near Berlin. Today the company is located in Wehrheim near Frankfurt.- History :...
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Types
- Deutsche Schrift (1908-1921)
- Maximilian Antiqua (1913-17)
- Wilhelm Klingspor-Schrift (1920-1926)
- Deutsche Zierschrift (1921)
- Koch Antiqua / Locarno (1922), sold by Continental TypeContinental Type Founders AssociationContinental Type Founders Association was founded by Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary Jr. in 1925 to distribute foundry type imported from European foundries. The influence of more modern European type design was thus felt in the United States for the first time, and American foundries responded by...
in the United States as Eve - NeulandNeulandNeuland is a German typeface that was designed in 1923 by Rudolf Koch.Koch designed it by directly carving the type into metal. The original typeface thus had a great deal of variance between the sizes...
(1922-1923) - Deutsche Anzeigenschrift (1923-1924)
- Jessen (1924-1930)
- Wallau (1925-1934)
- KabelKabel (typeface)Kabel is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by German typeface designer Rudolf Koch, and released by the Klingspor foundry in 1927. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable...
(1927-1929) - Offenbach (1928)
- Zeppelin / Kabel Inline (1929)
- Marathon (1930-1938)
- Prisma (1931)
- Claudius (1931-1934)
- Holla (1932)
- Grotesk-Initialen (1933)
- Koch Current (1933)
- Neufraktur (1933-1934)