Johannes Wagner Type Foundry
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Johannes Wagner, Inh. ia a type foundry
created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt
in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry
and most of those from Berthold.
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...
created in 1921 by Johannes Wagner with his brother and brother-in-law in Berlin, moving to Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the center of Bavaria. As at 31 March 2011, Ingolstadt had 125.407 residents...
in 1956. In the early 1980s the firm acquired many of the matrices of the Weber Typefoundry
Weber Typefoundry
C.E. Weber was a German type foundry established in 1827 in Stuttgart. Noted designers working for the foundry included Georg Trump, and Ernst Schneidler. The foundry closed in 1970; some designs passed to the Johannes Wagner Type Foundry, others to Stempel....
and most of those from Berthold.
Typefaces
These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundryr:- Antiqua 505 (1940, Arno Drescher), also called Manutius.
- Hiero Rhode Roman + Bold (1945, Hiero Rhode)
- Hiero Rhode Roman Italic (1945, Karl Hans Walter)