Lucian Bernhard

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Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn, but changed in 1900 to his more commonly known pseudonym. The family of typefaces he developed is called Bernhard.

He was a professor in Berlin at the "Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums" 1923, when he emigrated to the United States, where he lived until his death on May 29, 1972.

Lucian Bernhard was the father of the photographer Ruth Bernhard.

[edit] Typefaces

  • Aigrette (1939)
  • Bernhard Antiqua (1912)
  • Bernhard Bold Condensed
  • Bernhard Brushscript SG
  • Bernhard Fashion (1929)
  • Bernhard Fraktur
  • Bernhard Gothic (1930)
  • Bernhard Handschrift (1928)
  • Bernhard Modern (1937)
  • Bernhard Privat (1919)
  • Bernhard Schönschrift
  • Bernhard Tango
  • Concerto Rounded SG
  • Lilli
  • Lucian (1932), later re-released as Belucian [1]
  • Negro (1930), later re-released as Berlin Sans [2]
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