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Willy Wiegand

Type designer and typographer (b. 1884, Bremen, d. 1961, München) who founded the famous Bremer Presse in 1911 together with his school friend Ludwig Wolde. For his publishing house he designed an antiqua in 1912 and designed Bibelschrift (Latin/Roman blackletter, Greek and Liturgica). These typefaces were cut by Louis Hoell. After World War I, the Bremer Presse moved to Bad Tölz, and finally in 1921 to München.

The Bremer Presse Bibelschrift (1926, Bremer Presse) was revived by Petra Heidorn and Manfred Klein in 2004 as Bibelschrift. Some samples can be found in Die Bremer Presse, Königin der deutschen Pressen (1964, Typographische Gesellschaft München). Other typefaces, all in the 1970s Berthold collection: Wiegands Adbold (1974), Wiegands Roundhead (1974), Wiegands Baroque Normal and Kursiv (1977), Wiegands Renaissance Kursiv (1978).

Wiegand's antiqua type was faithfully revived in 2019 by Dorothée Schraudner as Bremer Presse. Kevin Barrett Kane revived it in 2022 as Bremer Antiqua.

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