The Bauer Type Foundry was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 type foundry

Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...

 founded in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer

Johann Christian Bauer

Johann Christian Bauer was a German type designer, punchcutter, and founder of the Bauer Type Foundry. Bauer was born in Hanau and began working as a punch-cutter in 1827. He ran a type foundry in Frankfurt am Main, Germany for three years with Christian Nies, before founding the Bauersche...

 in Frankfurt am Main. Noted typeface designers, among them Lucian Bernhard

Lucian Bernhard

Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn to a Jewish family, but changed in 1905 to his more commonly known pseudonym...

, Konrad Friedrich Bauer

Konrad Friedrich Bauer

Konrad Friedrich Bauer was a German type designer who, though not related to founder Johann Christian Bauer, was head of the art department for the Bauer Type Foundry from 1928 until his retirement in 1968. Bauer’s father was a type founder in Altona and Bauer studied art and the history of...

 (not related to the company's founder), Walter Baum

Walter Baum

Walter Baum was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher. Baum trained as a typesetter from 1935 to 1939, he resumed his studies after the war before becoming head of the graphics studio at the Bauer Type Foundry in 1948...

, 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 because the company's administration assumed that type founding, rather than typesetting, would be automated. The new owner, Georg Hartmann

Georg Hartmann

Georg Hartmann was a German engineer, instrument maker, author, printer, humanist, churchman, and astronomer....

, succeeded in saving the company. Subsequently, the company grew, also due to several takeovers, e.g. in 1916 by Frankfurt's type foundry Flinsch, itself a global player. In 1927, an office was opened in New York

New York

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.

In 1972, all activities of the headquarters in Frankfurt were stopped and transferred to the former subsidiary company, Fundición Tipográfica Neufville in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, which still owns the rights to many typefaces. These are distributed by the English company, Neufville Digital, amongst others.

Typefaces

The following foundry types were issued by Bauer:

External links

• Publications regarding the Bauer Type Foundry in the catalogue of the German National Library (in German)
• Short information at Linotype.com
• Neufville Digital
• Short information at Myfonts.com

See also

• Clarendon (typeface)
  Clarendon (typeface)
  Clarendon is an English slab-serif typeface that was created in England by Robert Besley for Thorowgood and Co. , a type company formerly known as the Fann Street Foundry until approximately 1838. The font was published in 1845 after Besley, an employee of the foundry since 1826, was made a partner...
  
  
• Futura (typeface)
  Futura (typeface)
  In typography, Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–1933...