Jakob Erbar
Visual Artist
1878 – 1935
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Who was Jakob Erbar?
Jakob Erbar was a German professor of graphic design and type designer. Trained as a typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg Printing Works, before studying under Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Erbar went on to teach in 1908 at the Städtischen Berufsschule and from 1919 to his death at the Kölner Werkschule. His seminal Erbar series was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1878
Düsseldorf - Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Düsseldorf
- Died
- Jan 7, 1935
Cologne
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on July 23, 2013
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