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Wilhelm Weimar

German type designer, illustrator and photographer, b. 1857, d. 1917. Weimar worked at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. at Genzsch&Heyse who created Heimat (1917, blackletter [note: this contradicts Klingspor's date of 1927]) and Weimar-Schrift (1924). Heimat was revived as Heimat (2005) by Petra Heidorn.

Author of Schrift. Monumental-Schriften vergangener Jahrhunderte von ca 1100--1812 an Stein-, Bronze- und Holzplatten (1898, Vienna).

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