Main entry:

Cinamon, Gerald.

Title & Author:

Rudolf Koch : letterer, type designer, teacher / Gerald Cinamon.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2000.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-198) and index.
Foreword / by Hermann Zapf -- Rudolf Koch : life, work and selected writings -- The typefaces of Rudolf Koch -- The manuscript books of Rudolf Koch (14908-21) -- The writings of Rudolf Koch -- Bibliography of Rudolfinische Drucke -- Paul Koch -- Bibliography -- Finding Rudolf Koch's grave at Frankfurt Oberrad.
Also issued online.

Summary:

A biography and study of Rudolph Koch, a master of lettering and the design of typefaces. Illustrated with nearly 300 examples of Koch's work, this text looks beyond the - often eulogistic and uncritical -contemporary accounts of his output, to examine his work and complex character in detail.

ISBN:

1584560134
9781584560135
0712346597
9780712346597

Subject:

Koch, Rudolf, 1876-1934.
Koch, Rudolf 1876-1934
BMBF-Statusseminar
Type and type-founding Germany History.
Type designers Germany Biography.
Calligraphers Germany Biography.
Lettristes Allemagne Biographies.
Calligraphes Allemagne Biographies.
Calligraphers.
Type and type-founding.
Type designers.
Biografie
Schriftkunst
Typografie
Boekkunst.
Letterontwerpers.
Germany.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212125
Call No.: NK44.K76 C5 2000
Status: Available