Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry
| Aktiengesellschaft | |
| Industry | Type foundry |
| Founded | 1819 |
| Founder | Johann Schelter, Christian Giesecke |
| Defunct | 1946 |
| Headquarters | Leipzig, Germany |
Key people | Georg Belwe |
J.G. Schelter & Giesecke was a German type foundry and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in Leipzig by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Giesecke. The foundry was one of the first to cast Grotesque typefaces, offering perhaps the first sans-serif type face with lower-case letters as early as 1825.[1] The foundry was nationalized in 1946 by the new German Democratic Republic, forming Typoart, Dresden.[2]
Typefaces
These foundry types were produced by Schelter & Giesecke:[3]
- Alt Latein (1924)
- Belwe Roman (1907, Georg Belwe)
- Gravira (1935, Herbert Thannhaueser)
- Romanisch, later copied by the Central Type Foundry of Saint Louis as De Vinne.
- Schelter Antiqua (1905)
- Shakespere Medaeval (1927–1929, Georg Belwe)
- Wieland (1926, Georg Belwe)
Press Manufacturing
Beginning in 1827 Schelter & Giesecke manufactured letterpress presses, cylinder proof presses and platen presses; and after World War I also of web-fed, letterpress and flexo printing presses.
References
- ↑ Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, ISBN 0-87923-333-8, p. 296.
- ↑ "Schelter & Giesecke". MyFonts. 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ↑ 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
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