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Wilhelm Weimar

German type designer, illustrator, photographer and professor, b. 1857, d. 1917. Weimar worked at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. According to Mitteilungen des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, he drew at least three alphabets, Alte Schwabacher, Leibniz-Fraktur and Hamburger Druckschrift. The type foundry Genzsch & Heyse showed Weimar's alphabets Alte Schwabacher, Leibniz-Fraktur and Hamburger Druckschrift after Weimar's death. They first appeared in Die Heimat in 1917. Posthumously, via his widow, Genzsch&Heyse published the blackletter typeface Weimarschrift (ca. 1924). Klingspor credits Heimat (1927, Genzsch and Heyse) to Wilhelm Weimar---one should assume that this is a renaming of Weimarschrift.

Heimat was revived as Heimat (2005) by Petra Heidorn.

Author of Schrift. Monumental-Schriften vergangener Jahrhunderte von ca 1100--1812 an Stein-, Bronze- und Holzplatten (1898, Vienna).

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