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Johann Vincenz Cissarz

German painter, illustrator, designer, teacher, architect, and type designer born in 1873 in Danzig. He studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, from 1891 to 1896. He was involved in poster design, handlettering and illustration, and made seminal contributions in his typographic work on the catalogs for the 1904-1905 exhibitions of the Darmstadt Artist Colony and his posters and advertisements for Bad Nauheim in 1904. In 1906, Cissarz became head of book design at the teaching and experimental workshop of the Verein Würtembergischer Kunstfreunde in Stuttgart, later becoming a professor until 1920. From 1916 on, he taught painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts Academy) in Frankfurt am Main. He died in 1942 in Frankfurt am Main.

His (only?) typeface is Cissarz-Latein (1912, Ludwig & Mayer Foundry) [calligraphy in image by Josef Weinheber]. His poster lettering for the Darmstadt Artists Colony in 1904 was at the basis of Darmstadt Arts NF, a font designed in 2007 by Nick Curtis. Csiszarz Latein NF (2008, Nick Curtis) recaptures his typeface in digital form. ValleyGrrrlNF (Nick Curtis) is based on Cissarz's poster lettering in Erste Hoehenluft Radfahr-Bahn (1897).

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