Heinrich Wieynck

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Heinrich Wieynck German type designer (b. Barmen, 1874, d. Saarow, 1931) mainly associated with the Bauersche Giesserei. In 1914 he became a Professor at the Akademie für Kunstgewerbe in Dresden. Before that he lived mainly in Berlin. He designed Belvedere (1907, Bauersche Giesserei) Kolumbus and Kolumbus Eng (1905-1906, W. Gronau) Mercedes Antiqua, Kursiv and Antiqua Halbfett in 1904, 1905 and 1906 respectively, at Wilhelm Woellmer Trianon (1905, Bauersche Giesserai) and Trianon Licht (1909, Bauersche) Phyllis (1911, Bauersche Giesserei): a clean old-fashioned rounded script font. Digitizations were done by URW and Elsner&Flake. At Scangraphic, it is called Phyllis SB. This typeface is also called Wieynck Kursio. Wieynck-Fraktur (1912) and Wieynck-Fraktur Halbfett (1913), both at the Bauersche Giesserei. Revived in 2002 by Dieter Steffmann, who also made Wieynck Vignetten) Wieynck Gotisch (1926, Schriftguss; revived by Gerard Helzel in 2001), Wieynck Werkschrift (1930, Schriftguss), Wieynck Gotisch Licht (1929, Schriftguss) Wieynck Kanzlei (1926, D. Stempel) Wieynck Mediaeval (1928) and Wieynck Mediaeval Kursiv (1929), at Otto Weisert. Woellmer Antiqua (1907), Woellmer Kursiv (1907) and Woellmer Antiqua Halbfett (1908), all at Wilhelm Woellmer Bio graphy by Harald Süß (Die deutsche Schrift, 2002). Picture. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Heinrich Wieynck [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ German type scene ⦿