Deutsche Schriften der Schriftgiesserei H. Berthold A.G. Berlin SW 61, Bismarck-Fraktur, Probe Nr. 279
Georg Trump
German, 1896–1985
1933-34
A letterpress specimen cover by Georg Trump presenting and marketing a new Bismarck‑Fraktur blackletter typeface for the H. Berthold foundry.
The page hits you with dense, ornamental blackletter set in heavy, calligraphic strokes stacked across the top, visually punctuated by a single bright‑red numeral “1” in a small framed label against a warm cream background.
As an interwar type specimen, it records how designers revived and adapted historic Fraktur for industrial printing and how foundries used striking printed samples to sell type and cultural identity in a changing typographic landscape.
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
11 5/8 x 8 5/16" (29.5 x 21.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Jan Tschichold Collection, Gift of Philip Johnson
Accession
1007.1999
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Art Terms
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