Georg Belwe

Georg Belwe
Born	(1878-08-12)12 August 1878 Berlin, Germany
Died	1954 Ronneberg, West Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	typography

Georg Belwe (12 August 1878 – 1954) was a German type designer, typographer, graphic artist and teacher.

Personal information

Belwe was born on 8 December 1878 in Berlin, Germany. He studied and later taught at the teaching institute of Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in his native Berlin.

Career

1900

In 1900, with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, he founded Steglitzer Werkstadt, a private press. This same year he joins the Kunstgewerbeschule as a teacher in Berlin.

1906

In 1906 he became head of typography department and the class for accurate drawing at the Leipzig Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe.

Productions

Belwe has produced numerous works for publishing houses which include:

• List
• Reclam
• Eugen Diederichs
• Westermann

Publications

His publications include:

• Albert Mundt "Georg Belwe und seine Klasse an der Königlichen Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe" in "Archiv für Buchgewerbe" In June 1910.

Death

Belwe died in Ronneburg, Germany in 1954.

Fonts Designed by Georg Belwe

• Belwe Roman (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1907)
• Belwe Gotisch (1912)
• Belwe Schrägschrift (1913)
• Belwe halbfett (1914)
• Wieland (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1926)
• Fleischman (L. Wagner Type Foundry, 1927), based on the eighteenth century designs of Joan Michaël Fleischman
• Schönschrift Mozart (1927)
• Shakespere Medaeval (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1927–1929)

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.
• Friedl, Ott, and Stein, Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
• Macmillsn, Niel, An A-Z of Type Designers, Yale University Press, 2006.