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.

References

  1. ↑ "Hildegard Korger - Typografie.info TypoWiki". Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Klingspor Museum (14 July 2021). "Hildegard Korger Bio" (PDF). Klingspor Museum. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Preuss, Ingo (5 March 2012). "Hildegard Korger zum 70. :: typeFORUM :: Portal zum Thema Schrift". typeforum.de (in German). Archived from the original on 5 March 2012.


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