Berthold Wolpe

Berthold Ludwig Wolpe OBE (October 29, 1905–July 5 1989) was a German typeface designer and teacher.

Wolpe was born in Offenbach, Germany. He became acquainted with Stanley Morison in 1932, and emigrated to London in 1935, where he worked until 1940 for the "Fanfare Press". During World War II, as a German national, he was relocated through U-Boat-infested waters to Australia with many of his emigre countrypeople who were residing in Britain. He was allowed to return in 1941, and later that year married artist Margaret Wolpe (maiden name Margaret Smith).

He designed over 1,500 book jackets for the publisher "Faber & Faber" between 1941 and 1975.

Wolpe was given the Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) award by the Royal Society of Arts in 1959. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983.

Typefaces

*Hyperion (1931)
*Albertus (1932-40)
*Tempest (1936)
*Sachsenwald (1937)
*Pegasus (1938)
*Decorata (1950)
*Johnston's Sans Serif (1973)

Teaching Posts

*"Camberwell College of Art" (1948-53)
*"Royal College of Art", London (1956-57)
*"City & Guilds of London School of Art"

References

*Williams, Owen "Berthold Wolpe and His Typeface Albertus" Letter Arts Review, Vol 20 No 1, 2006

External links

* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~gasuzanne/Web%20Pages/Genealogy/pafn49.htm Copy of obituary from "The Jewish Chronicle", 14 July 1989]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2319148,00.html Margaret Wolpe's obituary from "The Times", 19 August 2006]
* [http://www.linotype.com/624/bertholdwolpe.html Linotype font designer]