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Nationality
  
German

Known for
  
typography


Name
  
Walter Baum

Role
  
Artist

Walter Baum Gratz Gallery Walter Baum Pennsylvania Winter

Born
  
23 May 1921 (
1921-05-23
)
Gummersbach, Germany

Died
  
July 12, 1956, Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States

Education
  
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Periods
  
Pennsylvania Impressionism, Impressionism

Organizations founded
  
Baum School of Art, Allentown Art Museum

Walter Baum (23 May 1921 – 8 March 2007) was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher. Baum trained as a typesetter from 1935 to 1939, he resumed his studies after the war before becoming head of the graphics studio at the Bauer Type Foundry in 1948. There he collaborated with Konrad Friedrich Bauer in designing many typefaces, including Fortune, the first Clarendon typeface with a matching italic. From 1972 to 1986 he was director of the Kunstschule Westend in Frankfurt am Main.

Walter Baum Gratz Gallery Biography of Walter Emerson Baum

Fonts Designed by Walter Baum

Walter Baum New Hope Duck Breast Salad Salad A Day

All faces designed in collaboration with Konrad Friedrich Bauer.

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  • Alpha (Bauer, 1954)
  • Beta (Bauer, 1954), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.
  • Folio (Bauer and Intertype, 1956–63), also sold as Caravelle by Founderie Typographique Francaise.
  • Imprimatur (Bauer, and Intertype, 1952–55) also sold as Horizon by Founderie Typographique Francaise
  • Fortune or Volta (Bauer 1955)
  • Impressum (Amsterdam Type foundry and Bauer 1962)

    • Walter Baum Walter Emerson Baum 18841956 Winter in Tohickon

    References

    Walter Baum Wikipedia
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