Albert Hartmann letterhead

Georg Trump

Unknown

A letterpress-printed letterhead Georg Trump designed for architect Albert Hartmann to convey professional clarity and modernist restraint through spare typography and layout.

The sheet reads as deliberate emptiness: a thin horizontal rule, a small geometric logo and tiny, precisely set words float on a wide field of cream paper so that the white space feels intentional and exacting.

Rooted in the New Typography of interwar Germany, this restrained, grid-based stationery exemplifies how functional graphic design reshaped corporate identity and influenced 20th‑century visual communication.

Palette

Art Terms

Letterpress Typography Graphic design Design Avant-garde Bauhaus

Exhibitions

German Art of the 20th Century

1957

American Watercolors; Lettering and Arrangements in Poster Design

1941

German Drawing: The Expressionists

1974

Bauhaus: 1919–1928

1938