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(Redirected from Bauer Type Foundry) German type foundry
Bauersche Gießerei
Company typeAktiengesellschaft
IndustryType foundry
Founded1837
FounderJohann Christian Bauer
Defunct1972
HeadquartersFrankfurt am Main, Germany
Key peopleKonrad Friedrich Bauer, Walter Baum, Heinrich Jost

Bauersche Gießerei was a German type foundry founded in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer in Frankfurt am Main. Noted 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, Neufville Typefoundry in Barcelona, after 1995 to 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:

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.
  1. List of foundry types taken from these sources:

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