Friedrich Neugebauer

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Friedrich Neugebauer Austrian scribe and calligrapher, born in 1911. Harald Suess wrote about him in die Deutsche Schrift in 1996: I, II, III. The story goes that as a prisoner of war in Egypt, he wrote with toothpaste when all else failed. Author of The Mystic Art of Written Forms: An Illustrated Handbook for Lettering (Salzburg: Neugebauer Press, 1980), and Bibliophile, Buchgraphik, Schriftgraphik (Salzburg, Austria: Verlag Neugebauer Press, 1983). Typefaces influenced by his style: Avalon (1995), a calligraphic typeface family by Richard Lipton. Frauen [Roman, Script] (2015, Lucas Sharp, Incubator). A calligraphic pair. The Roman is partially based on the calligraphy of Friedrich Neugebauer [on the cover of an almanac of Berlin debutantes published in 1945 titled, Die schönsten Frauen der Welt], and partly Lucas's own creation. Production assistance from Wei Huang.	EXTERNAL LINKS Friedrich Neugebauer [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Type in Austria ⦿ Books on type design ⦿