Georg August Eduard Schiller

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Georg August Eduard Schiller Imperial punchcutter at the Reichsdruckerei Berlin, engraver and medalist, b. 1858, Stuttgart, d. 1937, Ravensburg. Type designer at C.F. Rühl (Berthold), where he made these blackletter typefaces: Neuwerk-Type (1908), Rühlsche Fraktur (1909), Rü-Neudeutsch (1899), Elementar-Deutsch (1911), Diadem (1912). At Rühl in Leipzig, he also made the script typeface Esther (1913) and the flared sans typeface Caesar Schrift (1913). [The latter was digitally revived in 2011 by Ralph M. Unger as Caesar Pro (2011).] At Ludwig & Mayer, he designed the informal blackletter typeface Lyrisch (1907). Lyrisch was revived in 2014 by Ralph M. Unger as Lyrica. At Akademie für das Buchgewerbe in Leipzig, he made Akademie-Fraktur (1912). Around 1900, he designed the Jugendstil genre font Germania (Reichsdruckerei), and the blackletter font Borussia (Reichsdruckerei). Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Georg August Eduard Schiller [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Blackletter fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Art Nouveau typefaces ⦿