Bauer Type Foundry

Bauer Type Foundry

The Bauer Type Foundry was a German type foundry founded in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer in Frankfurt am Main. Considerable typeface designers, among them Lucian Bernhard, Konrad Friedrich Bauer (not related to the company's founder), Walter Braun, Heinrich Jost, Imre Reiner, Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, Emil Rudolf Weiß, and Heinrich Wienyck, designed typefaces for the company.

The company nearly went bankrupt at the end of the 19th century due to the assumption of the company's administration, that type founding instead of typesetting would be automated. The new owner Georg Hartmann succeeded in saving the company. Several takeovers, "e.g." of Frankfurt's type foundry Flinsch–a global player itself–in 1916, followed, which let the company grow. In 1927 an office was opened in New York.

In 1972 all activities of the headquarter Frankfurt were stopped and transferred to the former subsidiary company "Fundición Tipográfica Neufville" in Barcelona, which still owns the rights to many typefaces. Amongst others those are distributed by the English company "Neufville Digital".

References

"In German"
* Konrad F. Bauer: "Zur Geschichte der Unger-Fraktur. Sonderabzug aus dem Gutenberg-Jahrbuch," 1929. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.
* Eberhard Hölscher: "Ansprache bei der Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Der Schriftkünstler E. R. Weiß“, anlässlich seines sechzigsten Geburtstages, im Schriftmuseum Rudolf Blanckertz in Berlin", 1935. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.
* "Greif, eine Geschichte des Buchdrucker-Wappentieres," 1939. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.
* "Ein Stammbaum der Schrift," 1962. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.

External links

*Publications regarding the Bauer Type Foundry [https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=bauersche+gie%C3%9Ferei in the catalogue of the German National Library] ("in German")
* [http://www.linotype.com/3392/bauerschegieerei.html Short information at Linotype.com]
* [http://www.neufville.com/uk/216059uk.htm Neufville Digital]
* [http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/bauer/ Short information at Myfonts.com]

ee also

*Clarendon (typeface)
*Futura (typeface)


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