Heinz König

Biography

Letterer, type designer. Born 29 February 1856 in Lüneburg. Early training in his father’s printing firm. Designed types for the Hamburg typefoundry Genzsch & Heyse, and for the Offenbach typefoundry Gebr. Klingspor: Walthari, 1899/1900, König-Antiqua, 1904/05, Renaissance-Fraktur. Died 18 August 1937 in Lüneburg.

Writings by

  • ‘Georg Leopold Fuhrmanns Schriftprobenbuch von 1616’, Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde , 1898, pp. 220-26.

Writings about

  • L. Deubner, ‘The art of the book in Germany’, in Charles Holme (ed.), The Art of the Book, London/Paris/New York: The Studio, 1914 (repr. Dorset Press, 1990), pp. 132, 150
  • HAH, 1991.
  • Wilhelm H. Lange, ‘Schriftkünstler von Heute’ (contemporary type-designers), Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., Jan. 1939, pp. 59-70, esp. p. 60