**San Serif
**Grotesk
** H.Berthold (and Gunter Gerhard Lange)
**1898, Germany
Bio. :
Hermann Berthold
Born in 1831, Hermann Berthold was the son of a calico-printer. On completion of his apprenticeship as a precision-instrument maker and after practical experience gained abroad in galvanography, Hermann Berthold founded his “Institute for Galvano Technology” in Berlin in 1858. Very quickly he discovered a method of producing circular lines from brass and not, as customary at that time, from lead or zinc. The soldering normally necessary could also be dispensed with. The lines were elastic and therefore highly durable. They produced outstandingly fine results. Most of German’s letterpress printers and many printers abroad placed their orders with Berthold. His products became so popular that the print trade popularized the saying “As precise as Berthold brass”.
In 1878 Hermann Berthold was commissioned to put an end to the confusion of typographic systems of measurement. With the aid of Professor Foerster he succeeded in devising a basic unit of measurement (1m = 2,660 typographic points). This was the birth of the first generally binding system of typographic measurement. It is still used in the trade. Hermann Berthold served as the head of the Berthold type foundry until 1888.
Information about the typeface designer Günter Gerhard Lange and his fonts.Günter Gerhard Lange was born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Germany, in 1921. His education was interrupted with the outbreak of the second world war when he was called into military service. Only a year later he suffered a serious injury, and the subsequent loss of his leg lead to a medical discharge from the German Army.
In 1941 he embarked on a masters course at the Academy of Graphic Arts and the Book Trade in Leipzig. He studied calligraphy, typesetting, and printing with Professor Georg Belwe, and drawing, etching and lithography with Professor Hans Theo Richter. On completing his course Lange took the position of assistant to Professor Walter Tiemann at the Leipzig Institute. During the early post-war years Lange worked as a freelance artist in Leipzig.
In 1949 he moved to Berlin and enrolled at the University of Pictorial Arts, studying freelance art with Professor Paul Strecker and drawing with Professor Hans Ullman. On graduation on returned to freelance work with his first major client the typeface foundry, Berthold AG. He was promoted to artistic director in 1961 a position which he held until 1990.
He was not only the designer of classic typefaces such as Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ, Berthold Bodoni Old Face BQ, and Imago BQ, but also a communicator and teacher who was an inspiration to many young type designers.
He died in 2008 at the age of 87.
[DJD, December 2008]
In 1878 Hermann Berthold was commissioned to put an end to the confusion of typographic systems of measurement. With the aid of Professor Foerster he succeeded in devising a basic unit of measurement (1m = 2,660 typographic points). This was the birth of the first generally binding system of typographic measurement. It is still used in the trade. Hermann Berthold served as the head of the Berthold type foundry until 1888.
Günter Gerhard Lange (1921-2008)
Information about the typeface designer Günter Gerhard Lange and his fonts.In 1941 he embarked on a masters course at the Academy of Graphic Arts and the Book Trade in Leipzig. He studied calligraphy, typesetting, and printing with Professor Georg Belwe, and drawing, etching and lithography with Professor Hans Theo Richter. On completing his course Lange took the position of assistant to Professor Walter Tiemann at the Leipzig Institute. During the early post-war years Lange worked as a freelance artist in Leipzig.
In 1949 he moved to Berlin and enrolled at the University of Pictorial Arts, studying freelance art with Professor Paul Strecker and drawing with Professor Hans Ullman. On graduation on returned to freelance work with his first major client the typeface foundry, Berthold AG. He was promoted to artistic director in 1961 a position which he held until 1990.
He was not only the designer of classic typefaces such as Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ, Berthold Bodoni Old Face BQ, and Imago BQ, but also a communicator and teacher who was an inspiration to many young type designers.
He died in 2008 at the age of 87.
[DJD, December 2008]
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