Font Designer – Heinrich Jost
Heinrich Jost – born 13. 10. 1889 in Magdeburg, Germany, died 27. 9. 1948 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany – typographer, type designer, graphic designer. Trained as a bookseller and also attended courses at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule in Magdeburg.
1908: moves to Munich. 1911: takes evening courses at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich under Paul Renner and Emil Preetorius. Works as a book designer and graphic artist. 1923–48: art director of the Bauersche type foundry in Frankfurt am Main.
Font: Fraktur (1925), Atrax (1926), Bauer Bodoni® (1926), Aeterna (1927), Beton® (1930–36).
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
1908: moves to Munich. 1911: takes evening courses at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich under Paul Renner and Emil Preetorius. Works as a book designer and graphic artist. 1923–48: art director of the Bauersche type foundry in Frankfurt am Main.
Font: Fraktur (1925), Atrax (1926), Bauer Bodoni® (1926), Aeterna (1927), Beton® (1930–36).
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.