Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878-1965)


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Name (English): Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke
Short name: Fritz Helmut Ehmcke
Year of birth: 1878
Year of death: 1965
Short Description: "Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878–1965) was a German graphical designer, typographer and illustrator.

Born in Inowrocław, Prussia (now Poland), Ehmcke was educated as a lithographer in Berlin during 1893–1897. In 1900, he was a co-founder of Steglitzer Werkstatt.

From 1903, he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf, from 1913 to 1938 in Munich, during 1920-1921 also in Zürich.

During 1946 to 1948, he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

He designed a number of typesets, notably Ehmcke-Antiqua and Ehmcke-Kursiv in 1909/10 (adopted for English-language typesetting by Stephenson Blake under the name Carlton)." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)
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[Last update: 2022/02/19]