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Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil
Blackletter type designer at Ludwig&Mayer, b. 1874 Michelau, d. 1945: Welt-Fraktur (Magere and Halbfette) (1908-1910), Werk-Fraktur (1918; the mager is from 1913), Kulmbacher Fraktur, Kulmbacher Schwabacher (1935). His blackletter typeface Fränkisch Spitze Buchkursive (or just Fränkisch) (1906, Genzsch & Heyse; Seemann and Wetzig both mention 1910) was revived by Dieter Steffmann in 2002. He is often called the forgotten designer. His life story was told in 1983 by Hermann Stettner and others in the magazine of the Bund für die deutsche Schrift, volume 69: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9. |
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file name: Werk Fraktur Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil 1913
file name: Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil Fraenkish1906 Welt Fraktur Halbfett1908 Werk Fraktur Mager1913
file name: Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil Kulmbacher Fraktur
file name: Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil Kulmbacher Schwabacher1935
file name: L R Spitzenpfeil Fraenkisch 1910
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