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| Artistic Director of H. Berthold AG, Günter Gerhard Lange has been responsible for the company's entire typeface development programme since 1960. In addition to reviving several classic faces he also created many new typefaces, including Concorde and Imago. Born in Frankfurt in 1921 he studied calligraphy, type design, drawing etching and lithorgraphy at the Akademie für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig from 1941 to 1945, where his tutors included George Belwe for calligraphy and typesetting and Hans Theo Richter for lithography. After a period as a freelance painter and graphic designer he moved to Berlin in 1949 and undertook further studies in painting and drawing at the Hochschule füldende Künste. A calligraphic influence shows itself in some of his types. His early Derby and Boulevard are both Script types, as are Champion and El Greco. His 1954 Solemnis is an uncial and was part of the revival of such forms begun by Victor Hammer. Arena is a roman body type which bears the influence of Stanley Morrison's Times. His career with Berthold commenced in 1950 when he was employed as an artistic freelancer. After his appointemnt as Artistic Director in 1960 he was appointed to the main board in 1971. | |
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Günter Gerhard Lange Erik Spiekermann Gerard Unger Ian Anderson David Berlow Erik van Blokland Alexander Branczyk Lo Breier Neville Brody Matthew Butterick David Carson David Crow Tobias Frere-Jones Malcolm Garrett Luc(as) de Groot Jefferey Keedy Max Kisman Thomas Nagel Heike Nehl Just van Rossum Sibylle Schlaich Pierre di Sciullo Heidi Specker Ian Swift Teal Triggs Rick Valicenti Cornel Windlin Graham Wood Jon Wozencroft | |
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