L. Wagner Type Foundry
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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 facilities in East Leipzig suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II. In 1949, the company was given new facilities in the Southwestern part of Leipzig. Ludwig Wagner AG was incorporated into Typoart by the East German governmentin 1960 and Wagner himself moved to the German Federal Republic
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Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
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 facilities in East Leipzig suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II. In 1949, the company was given new facilities in the Southwestern part of Leipzig. Ludwig Wagner AG was incorporated into Typoart by the East German governmentin 1960 and Wagner himself moved to the German Federal Republic
German Federal Republic
"German Federal Republic" was one of the derogatory terms used by the communist German Democratic Republic to refer to the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1950s until 1968, when they started using the propaganda term "BRD"....
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Typefaces
These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundryr:- Acropolis (1940)
- Electra, (Carlos WinkowCarlos WinkowCarl Winckow known in Spain where he spent most of his working life as Carlos Winkow was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Naçional Typefoundry.-Fonts Designed by Carlos Winkow :...
), digitized by Font BureauFont BureauThe Font Bureau, Inc. or Font Bureau is a digital type foundry based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The foundry is one of the leading designers of typefaces, specializing in type designs for magazine and newspaper publishers....
as Romeo - Fleischmann (1927, Georg BelweGeorg BelweGeorg Belwe was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher. Belwe studied and later taught at the Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in his native Berlin. In 1900, with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, he founded Steglitzer Werkstadt, a private press...
), based on the eighteenth century designs of J.M. Fleischman. - Florenz, (1960, Paul ZimmermannPaul ZimmermannPaul Zimmermann is a French computational mathematician, working at INRIA.His interests include asymptotically-fast arithmetic — he wrote a book on algorithms for computer arithmetic with Richard Brent. He has developed some of the fastest available code for manipulating polynomials over...
) - Gong, (1945, Carlos WinkowCarlos WinkowCarl Winckow known in Spain where he spent most of his working life as Carlos Winkow was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Naçional Typefoundry.-Fonts Designed by Carlos Winkow :...
) - Industrie Antiqua, also sold by Linotype (Frankfurt)LinotypeThe Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler...
. - Reporter, (1938, Carlos WinkowCarlos WinkowCarl Winckow known in Spain where he spent most of his working life as Carlos Winkow was a German type designer who worked primarily for the Naçional Typefoundry.-Fonts Designed by Carlos Winkow :...
), reissued as Cursiva Rusinol by NaçionalNacional TypefoundryFundicion Tipográfica Nacional or the Nacional Typefoundry was for many years the leading type foundry of Spain. It was founded in Madrid in 1915 and functioned there until bought out by Fundicion Tipográfica Neufville of Barcelona in 1971...