Creator
Gebrüder Klingspor
Title
Kalenders.
Coverage
Offenbach-am-Main
Publisher
Schriftgiesserei Gebrüder Klingspor
Date
1910–1941
Subject
Duodecimo
Description
One key aspect of a type foundry’s output is the printing of promotional literature. The Klingspor Kalenders, issued annually (with occasional breaks in the series) over the course of more than a quarter century, are among the most charming and varied of this class of printing.
“Kalender” may be a bit misleading in this instance: these bound volumes exhibit a wide variety of typographic styles. In fact, their functionality as calendar pages is made subservient to their use as type specimens.
Gebrüder Klingspor is well known for issuing typefaces designed by Walter Tiemann, Rudolf Koch, and other German type designers. Much of the credit for these calendars belongs to the mostly unheralded typographic designers Ernst Engel (1879–1967) and Max Dorn (1887–1974).
“Kalender” may be a bit misleading in this instance: these bound volumes exhibit a wide variety of typographic styles. In fact, their functionality as calendar pages is made subservient to their use as type specimens.
Gebrüder Klingspor is well known for issuing typefaces designed by Walter Tiemann, Rudolf Koch, and other German type designers. Much of the credit for these calendars belongs to the mostly unheralded typographic designers Ernst Engel (1879–1967) and Max Dorn (1887–1974).
Source
PROVENANCE: Presented by Melbert Cary, importer of Klingspor types into America, to Will Ransom, bibliographer of private presses, some of whom used fonts from Gebr. Klingspor; later Jerry Kelly