Georg Belwe
# Georg Belwe

Georg Belwe (12 August 1878 – 1954) was a German type designer, typographer, graphic artist and teacher.

## Personal information

Belwe was born on 8 December 1878 in Berlin, Germany. He studied and later taught at the teaching institute of Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in his native Berlin.

## Career

### 1900

In 1900, with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, he founded Steglitzer Werkstadt, a private press. This same year he joins the Kunstgewerbeschule as a teacher in Berlin.

### 1906

In 1906 he became head of typography department and the class for accurate drawing at the Leipzig Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe.

## Productions

Belwe has produced numerous works for publishing houses which include:

* List
* Reclam
* Eugen Diederichs
* Westermann

## Publications

His publications include:

* Albert Mundt "Georg Belwe und seine Klasse an der Königlichen Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe" in "Archiv für Buchgewerbe" In June 1910.

## Death

Belwe died in Ronneburg, Germany in 1954.

## Fonts Designed by Georg Belwe

* Belwe Roman (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1907)
* Belwe Gotisch (1912)
* Belwe Schrägschrift (1913)
* Belwe halbfett (1914)
* Wieland (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1926)
* Fleischman (L. Wagner Type Foundry, 1927), based on the eighteenth century designs of Joan Michaël Fleischman
* Schönschrift Mozart (1927)
* Shakespere Medaeval (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1927–1929)

## Sources

* Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
* Friedl, Ott, and Stein, Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
* Macmillsn, Niel, An A-Z of Type Designers, Yale University Press, 2006.
