Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Hans Bohn

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Hans Bohn


Role
  
Graphic artist

Hans Bohn wwwdvhhorgbanatbiographiesimagesbohnhansbmp

Occupation
  
German graphic artist and typographer

Died
  
May 10, 1980, Frankfurt, Germany

Hans Bohn (December 23, 1891 – May 10, 1980) was a German graphic artist and typographer. He developed the fonts Orplid, Mondial, Allegro, and the heavier weight of Kuenstler Script.

After training at the Technische Lehranstalt in Offenbach, he began his professional career at the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1914. From 1919 to 1930, he worked at Gebr. Klingspor. Afterwards he was a freelance graphic designer. He produced fonts and graphic arts for the Ludwig & Mayer foundry, a major German foundry, in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he produced the Kuenstler font for the D Stempel AG foundry.

References

Hans Bohn Wikipedia