Hans Bohn

Graphic Designer, Deceased Person

1891 – 1980

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Who was Hans Bohn?

Hans Bohn was a German graphic artist and typographer. He developed the fonts Orplid, Mondial, Allegro, and the heavier weight of Kuenstler Script.

After training at the Technische Lehranstalt in Offenbach, he began his professional career at the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1914. From 1919 to 1930, he worked at Gebr. Klingspor. Afterwards he was a freelance graphic designer. He produced fonts and graphic arts for the Ludwig & Mayer foundry, a major German foundry, in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he produced the Kuenstler font for the D Stempel AG foundry.

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Born
Dec 23, 1891
Frankfurt
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
May 10, 1980
Frankfurt

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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