Hildegard Korger Explained

Hildegard Korger (18 June 1935 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia [1] – 8 November 2018 [2]) was a master calligrapher, scholar and professor at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

She is author of the Handbook of Type and Lettering (Schrift und Schreiben) which is considered by many to be one of the most definitive and complete books ever written on the subject of type and lettering arts.[3] It is dedicated to her former teacher, the Leipzig typographer Albert Kapr (1918–1995). She was a member of Association Typographique Internationale.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hildegard Korger - Typografie.info TypoWiki . 21 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071025090537/http://www.typografie.info/typowiki/index.php?title=Hildegard_Korger . 25 October 2007 . dead .
  2. Web site: Klingspor Museum. 14 July 2021. Hildegard Korger Bio. 14 July 2021. Klingspor Museum.
  3. Web site: Preuss . Ingo . Hildegard Korger zum 70. :: typeFORUM :: Portal zum Thema Schrift . typeforum.de . https://web.archive.org/web/20120305095107/http://www.typeforum.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=306&mode=thread&order=0 . 5 March 2012 . de . 5 March 2012.

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