Rudolf Koch

Fraktur fonts by Rudolf Koch

Rudolf Koch (20 November 1876 – 9 April 1934) was a leading German calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher, born in Nuremberg. He was primarily a calligrapher with the Gebr. Klingspor foundry. He created several typefaces, in both fraktur and roman styles. Fritz Kredel studied under Koch at the Offenbach School of Design.

Koch wrote a book containing 493 old-world symbols, monograms and runes entitled The Book of Signs (reprinted in 1955, in the Dover Pictorial Archive Series). He had also a column in the magazine Die zeitgemäße Schrift, a magazine of design published by Heintze & Blanckertz.

Types

• Deutsche Schrift (1908-1921)
• Maximilian Antiqua (1913-17)
• Wilhelm Klingspor-Schrift (1920-1926)
• Deutsche Zierschrift (1921)
• Koch Antiqua / Locarno (1922), sold by Continental Type in the United States as Eve
• Neuland (1922-1923)
• Deutsche Anzeigenschrift (1923-1924)
• Jessen (1924-1930)
• Wallau (1925-1934)
• Kabel (1927-1929)
• Offenbach (1928)
• Zeppelin / Kabel Inline (1929)
• Marathon (1930-1938)
• Prisma (1931)
• Claudius (1931-1934)
• Holla (1932)
• Grotesk-Initialen (1933)
• Koch Current (1933)
• Neufraktur (1933-1934)

References

• Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.

External links

• Font Designer - Rudolf Koch
• Klingspor-Museum Offenbach: Rudolf Koch
• Typophile: Rudolf Koch

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Name	Koch, Rudolf
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Date of birth	20 November 1876
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Date of death	9 April 1934
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