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40: 311: 348:'s words: "a roman with something of the angularity of the gothic." Less popular than Albertus, privately revived by Matthew Carter for the 1980 exhibition on Wolpe's work, adding an italic and bold. A digitisation was released in 2013 by Dinamo, and another in 2017 by Toshi Omagari as part of Monotype's Wolpe Collection. Omagari's digitisation is used extensively by Tortoise Media. 276:. His use of Albertus and hand-painted lettering became strongly identified with Faber jackets in the years that followed, and continued from 1958 on the Faber paper covered Editions. He remained at Faber until his retirement in 1975 and is estimated to have designed over 1,500 book covers and dust jackets. 430:
His wife was fellow artist Margaret Wolpe (nÊe Smith; sculptor and silversmith) and his children are Paul (doctor); Toby (technology journalist); Sarah (designer and basket maker); Deborah (potter and printmaker – who uses BLW's Albertus typeface in her work).
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released its Berthold Wolpe Collection, a set of updated digitisations of five Wolpe typefaces, and promoted them with an exhibition of Wolpe's work at the
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was published in a limited edition of 50 copies for the Society for Italic Handwriting, and was subsequently republished as a chapter in A. S. Osley's
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In addition to Albertus, Wolpe designed several other typefaces. He also taught at the Frankfurt and Offenbach School of Art (1929–33),
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A newe writing booke of copies, 1574, A fascimile of a unique Elisabethan Writing book in the Bodleian Library Oxford
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Scribes and sources: Handbook of the chancery hand in the sixteenth century : texts from the writing-masters
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In 1967, Wolpe prepared revived editions of the early nineteenth century specimen books of London typefounder
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was declared Wolpe, along with other German nationals living in England, was sent to an internment camp in
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Wolpe began his career as an apprentice in a firm of metalworkers, followed by four years as a student of
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in 1980 with Wolpe's involvement, and another in Mainz in 2006. In 2017 Wolpe's font design publisher
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came to power in 1935 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1947. He was made a
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Tempest Titling (1935), an all-caps slanted display sans-serif for the Fanfare Press.
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The Life & Work of: John de Beauchesne & the First English Writing-books
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German typographer, type designer, calligrapher and book designer (1905–1989)
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Margaret Re; Johanna Drucker; James Mosley; Matthew Carter (1 July 2003).
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In 1975, Wolpe published a monograph on the Elizabethan writing-master
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Fanfare, a slanted condensed display sans-serif for the Fanfare Press.
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Bryant, Sarah; Mosley, James; Hardwig, Florian (17 April 2014).
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Owen Williams, 'Berthold Wolpe and his Typeface Albertus'. In:
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A retrospective exhibition of Wolpe's career was held at the
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McLean, Ruairi (6 July 1989). "Obituary: Berthold Wolpe".
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
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Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts
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Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter
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London: Printing Historical Society. 503: 354:Sachsenwald (1937–1938), a modernised 331:Hyperion (1932), for the Bauer Foundry 213:, emigrated to England soon after the 1211: 1154: 1145: 773:"Exhibition (flickr set of pictures)" 614:"Berthold Wolpe at Faber (1941-1975)" 1216:(1 ed.). Boston: D. R. Godine. 1019: 971: 896: 856:Sinclair, Mark (27 September 2017). 796: 476: 249:. In 1932 he visited London and met 1270: 1118: 1042: 620:. Faber & Faber. Archived from 48:for achievement in printing in 1982 13: 1069: 858:"Berthold Wolpe: An Uncommon Type" 771:Rhatigan, Dan (7 September 2006). 714:. London: The Merrion Press, 2005. 371:companion to London Underground's 344:with similarities to Albertus, in 14: 1383: 1299: 1276: 1160: 881: 674:Eighty Years of Book Cover Design 452:Rochester Institute of Technology 1306:Shirley Tucker on Berthold Wolpe 745:Rhatigan, Dan (September 2006). 687:Himelfarb, Ellen (27 May 2015). 677:. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. 601:Just My Type: A Book About Fonts 569:Supplement to The London Gazette 425: 1230: 1205: 1180: 897:Shaw, Paul (10 February 2011). 890: 790: 725: 703: 662: 636: 504:Dawood, Sarah (21 March 2018). 378: 161: 1315:Monotype: The Wolpe Collection 1192:Society for Italic Handwriting 603:. London: Profile Books, 2010. 590: 575: 561: 542: 523: 497: 1: 1372:People from Offenbach am Main 1020:Hill, Jon (16 January 2019). 434: 479:"The Work of Berthold Wolpe" 305: 7: 1253:"Margaret Wolpe (obituary)" 1001:. Monotype. 10 October 2019 549:List of Honorary Doctorates 219:Royal Designer for Industry 10: 1388: 1022:"The face of the Tortoise" 111:United Kingdom (from 1947) 448:"Frederic W. Goudy Award" 392:In 1960, Wolpe published 236: 225:in 1968 and appointed an 171: 145: 132: 118: 101: 82: 53: 37: 23: 1146:Wolpe, Berthold (1967). 733:An A–Z of Type Designers 719:30 December 2011 at the 281:Camberwell School of Art 535:21 January 2012 at the 477:Drew, Nicholas (1940). 367:LPTB Italic (1973), an 899:"Overlooked Typefaces" 802:"Overlooked Typefaces" 327: 314:Wolpe's cover art for 1212:Osley, A. S. (1980). 649:23 March 2012 at the 587:, Vol 20, No 1, 2006. 326:is used on the right. 313: 182:Berthold Ludwig Wolpe 151:Margaret Leslie Smith 58:Berthold Ludwig Wolpe 800:(10 February 2011). 554:11 June 2011 at the 255:Monotype Corporation 229:in 1983. He died in 223:Royal College of Art 44:Wolpe receiving the 972:Cavedoni, Antonio. 558:on the RCA website. 539:on the RSA website. 420:Scribes and Sources 396:, co-authored with 951:"Dinamo Standards" 837:on 10 October 2017 599:. 'Albertus'. 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OBE

Goudy Award
Offenbach am Main
German Empire
London
Typographer
type designer
Albertus
OBE
calligrapher
typographer
type designer
Jewish
Offenbach
Frankfurt
Nazis
Royal Designer for Industry
Royal College of Art
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
London
Rudolf Koch
Kunstgewerbeschule
Stanley Morison
Monotype Corporation
Albertus
World War II
Australia
Faber and Faber
Camberwell School of Art

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