Genzsch & Heyse, A.G.

Genzsch & Heyse Schriftgießerei A.G.

Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Industry	Type foundry
Headquarters	Hamburg, Germany

Genzsch & Heyse was a German type foundry established in Hamburg.^[1] In the 1920s and 1930s, G+H types were sold in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association.^[2]

Typefaces

Example in typeface Alte-Schwabacher

The following foundry types were issued by the Trennert Type Foundry:^[3]

• Alte Schwabacher (before 1936)
• Arkona + Fett (before 1936)
• Bodoni + Halbfette + Kursiv (before 1936)
• Brahms Gotisch (before 1936)
• Fette Antiqua (before 1936)
• Friedrich Bauer Grotesk (before 1936, Friedrich Bauer), in addition to a basic face, there were three other versions, Magere, Kräftige, Halbfette, Fette, and Schmale Halbfette. Also cast by the Trennert Type Foundry.
• Fridericus Antiqua + Halbfette + Fette (before 1936)
• Genzsch Antiqua (before 1936), in addition to a basic face, there were several other versions, Halbfette, Fette, Kursiv, Halbfette Kursiv, and Fette Zeitungskursiv.
• Halbfette Antiqua (before 1936)
• Heyse + Semi-Bold (1924, Friedrich Bauer)
• Leibniz Fraktur + Grobe (before 1936)
• Nofretete + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Olympia 1 + 2 (before 1936)
• Phalanx + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Richard Wagner Fraktur + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Römische Antiqua (before 1897) later sold by Inland Type Foundry as MacFarland and by A.D. Farmer & Son as Bradford, matrices for machine composition later offered by Lanston Monotype, also as MacFarland.^[4]
• Semper Antiqua + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Senats Fraktur + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Sparta (before 1936)

References

1. Genzmer, Fritz, "Das Buch des Setzers," 1948.
2. Specimen Book of Continental Types, Continental Type Founders Association, N.Y.C., 1929.
3. 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, p. 2408-249.
   • "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.
4. Eckman, James, The Inland Type Foundry, 1894-1911, PAGA, vol. 8, 1960, pp. 34 & 39.