Bauersche Gießerei

Bauersche Gießerei
Company type	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Key people	Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Walter Baum, Heinrich Jost

Bauersche Gießerei was a German

typeface designers, among them Lucian Bernhard, Konrad Friedrich Bauer (not related to the company's founder), Walter Baum, Heinrich Jost, Imre Reiner [de], Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler [de], Emil Rudolf Weiß, and Heinrich Wienyck, designed typefaces

for the company.

The company nearly went bankrupt at the end of the 19th century because the company's administration assumed that type founding, rather than typesetting, would be automated. The new owner, Georg Hartmann, succeeded in saving the company. Subsequently, the company grew, also due to several takeovers, e.g. in 1916 by Frankfurt's type foundry Flinsch, itself a global player. In 1927, an office was opened in New York City.

In 1972, all activities of the headquarters in Frankfurt were reportedly ceased and transferred to the former subsidiary company,

Bauer Types

, which still owns the rights to many typefaces. These are distributed by companies like Monotype, Adobe, Paratype, URW++, Elsner & Flake, as well as Neufville Digital for the typeface Futura ND.

Typefaces

The following foundry types were issued by Bauer:[1]

Alpha (1954, Walter Baum + Konrad Friedrich Bauer)
Astoria (1907), a copy of Inland Type Foundry's Comstock, revived in 1957
Atrax (1926, Heinrich Jost)
Ballé Initials (Maria Ballé), not actually cast as foundry type, but rather electrotypes mounted on metal
Baron (1911), the italic version is called Baroness.
Bauer Classic Roman + Italic
Bauer Topic
- Cast in medium, bold, medium itaic, and bold italic, with alternate, rounded characters, in the bold and medium.
Bernhard Antiqua (1912, Lucian Bernhard
)

Bernhard Brush Script (1925, Lucian Bernhard
)

Madonna Ronde" by Stephenson Blake

Bernhard Fraktur (1912–22, Lucian Bernhard
)

Bernhard Handschrift (1928, Lucian Bernhard
)

Bernhard Roman + Italic (1937, Lucian Bernhard
)

Beta (1954, Baum + Bauer), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.

Beton (1931–36, Heinrich Jost), matrices also available for Intertype composition.
Cast in light, medium, bold, extrabold, medium condensed, bold condensed, and open.

Bodoni-Antiqua (1926, Louis Höll)
Cast in roman, bold, extrabold, italic, bold italic, extrabold italic, and title.

Bremer Presse Roman (1912, Willy Wiegand, matrices cut by Louis Höll), originally cast as a private type for the Bremer Presse by the Flinsch Type Foundry.

Cantate

Cartoon (1936, H.A. Trafton), known in Germany as Fresko.
Cast in light and bold.

Classic, also known as Bauer Baskerville.

Columna (1955, Max Caflisch)

Corvinus(1929–34, Imre Reiner), the condensed version is called Skyline
Cast in light, italic light, medium, italic medium, and bold

Ehmcke (1908, F. H. Ehmcke), originally cast by the Flinsch Foundry

Element, mager (before 1936)

Elizabeth Roman + Italic (1937, Elizabeth Friedländer)

Femina (1927)

Flinsch-Fraktur (before 1936)

Flinsch-Privat (before 1936)

Folio (1956–63, Baum + Bauer), also available in Intertype matrices, also sold as Caravelle by Fonderie Typographique Française

Fortune or Volta (1955, Baum + Bauer)
Cast only in light, bold, bold italic, and extra bold; no medium was ever cast

Futura (1927–30, Paul Renner), matrices also available for Intertype composition
Cast in light, book, medium, demibold, bold, oblique light, oblique medium, oblique condensed, bold condensed, display, black, and inline

Gillies Gothic (1935, William S. Gillies), known in Germany as Flott
Cast only in bold and light; no medium was ever cast.

Hellenic Wide

Horizon
Cast in light, medium, bold, and light italic.

Hoyer-Fraktur (before 1936)
Hoyer-Fraktur, schmalfelt (before 1936)

Hyperion (1931, Berthold Wolpe)

Impressum (1962,
Amsterdam Type foundry

Imprimatur (1952–55, Baum + Bauer), also available in Intertype matrices, also sold as Horizon by Fonderie Typographique Française.

Kleukens Antiqua (c. 1900, F W. Kleukens)

Legend (1937, F. H. Ernst Schneidler), known in Germany as Legende
Cast in light and bold

Lilli (1930, Lucian Bernhard), also known as "Lilith"

Lucian series (1925, Lucian Bernhard), later digitized as Belucian by Font Bureau

Lucian + italic also known as Graphic Light

Lucian Bold + italic also known as Graphic Bold

Manuskript-Gotisch (before 1936)

Maxime

Menhart-Antiqua and Kursiv (before 1936)

Negro (1930, Lucian Bernhard), later digitized as Berlin Sans by Font Bureau

Negrona, remastered version of Negro by Tipo Pèpel

Renata-Schwabacher (before 1936)

Stradivarius

Trafton Script (1933, H.A. Trafton), known in Germany as Quick and in France as Etoile

Vendôme (1962, François Ganeau) originally released by Fonderie Olive in 1954

Venus
Cast in light, medium, bold, extra bold, extended, medium extended, bold extended, extra bold extended, light italic, medium italic, bold italic, light condensed, bold condensed, extrabold condensed

Volta (see Fortune)

Emil Rudolf Weiss), matrices also available for Intertype
composition
Cast in roman, roman bold, italic with either swash or plain capitals, roman extrabold, and three series of initials

Weiß-Gotisch (before 1936)

Weiß-Fraktur (before 1936)
Lichte Weiß-Fraktur (before 1936)

Weiß-Rundgotisch (before 1936)

Wieynck-Fraktur (before 1936)

Zentenar-Fraktur (before 1936)
Halbfette Zentenar-Fraktur (before 1936)

References

In German

Konrad F. Bauer: Zur Geschichte der Unger-Fraktur. Sonderabzug aus dem Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1929. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.

Eberhard Hölscher: Ansprache bei der Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Der Schriftkünstler E. R. Weiß", anlässlich seines sechzigsten Geburtstages, im Schriftmuseum Rudolf Blanckertz in Berlin, 1935. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.

Greif, eine Geschichte des Buchdrucker-Wappentieres, 1939. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.

Ein Stammbaum der Schrift, 1962. Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt a. M.

^ List of foundry types taken from these sources:
Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983,
ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, pp. 2408–249.^{[clarification needed}
]

Specimen Book of Bauer Types (second edition), The Bauer Typefoundry, Inc., New York City.

For Your Guidance, Bauer Alphabets, Inc., New York City.

"Foundry Type Fonts of German Type Foundries at the End of the Nazi Era Pro" (PDF). Ulrich Stiehl. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2011-11-09.

External links

Publications regarding the Bauer Type Foundry in the catalogue of the German National Library (in German)

Short information at Linotype.com

Short information at Myfonts.com

Authority control databases
International

ISNI

VIAF

National

France

BnF data

Catalonia

Israel

United States

Czech Republic

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[1] List of foundry types taken from these sources:
Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983,
ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, pp. 2408–249.^{[clarification needed}
]

Specimen Book of Bauer Types (second edition), The Bauer Typefoundry, Inc., New York City.

For Your Guidance, Bauer Alphabets, Inc., New York City.

"Foundry Type Fonts of German Type Foundries at the End of the Nazi Era Pro" (PDF). Ulrich Stiehl. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2011-11-09.

[2] Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983,
ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, pp. 2408–249.^{[clarification needed}
]

[3] Specimen Book of Bauer Types (second edition), The Bauer Typefoundry, Inc., New York City.

[4] For Your Guidance, Bauer Alphabets, Inc., New York City.

[5] "Foundry Type Fonts of German Type Foundries at the End of the Nazi Era Pro" (PDF). Ulrich Stiehl. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2011-11-09.