Georg Belwe 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 designer, graphic artist and teacher

Teacher

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. Belwe studied and later taught at the Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum

Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin

The Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Decorative Arts, is an internationally important museum of the decorative arts in Berlin, Germany, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin...

 in his native Berlin. In 1900, with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, he founded Steglitzer Werkstadt, a private press. In 1906 he became head of typography at the Leipzig Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe

Fonts Designed by Georg Belwe

• Belwe Roman
  Belwe Roman
  Belwe Roman is a display typeface designed by Georg Belwe in 1907. The type has Old Style quialities, but short ascenders and very short descenders.-Foundry Type:...
  
  (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1907)
• Belwe Gotisch (1912)
• Belwe Schrägschrift (1913)
• Belwe halbfett (1914)
• Wieland (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1926)
• Fleischman (L. Wagner Type Foundry
  L. Wagner Type Foundry
  The Ludwig Wagner Type Foundry was established in 1902 in Leipzig after the veteran punch cutter Ludwig Wagner took over the small foundry Gundelach & Ebersbach in 1901. The beginning of his modern type production and the extension of his business happened before 1914. The large manufacturing...
  
  , 1927), based on the eighteenth century designs of J.M. Fleischman.
• Schönschrift Mozart (1927)
• Shakespere Medaeval (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1927–1929)