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Rudo Spemann

Born in Würzburg in 1903, this type designer died in 1947 in Schepetowka, USSR. Illustrator and calligrapher who made the calligraphic font Gavotte in 1940-1942 at Klingspor, now digitized by Linotype as Linotype Gavotte.

He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich under F. H. Ehmcke and Emil Preetorius and at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart under F. H. E. Schneidler.

Picture. A blackletter lettering example. In 1998, Harald Süß wrote a brief biography. See also Hans Adolf Halbey's book Rudo Spemann 1905-1947. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis seiner Schriftkunst (Offenbach, 1981).

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