Background
Bauer’s father was a type founder in Altona and Bauer studied art and the history of lettering before serving a printers’s apprentiship.
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Konrad Bauer
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Bauer revived and modified many nineteenth-century designs and he designed Fortune the first Clarendon typeface with a matching italic. He is the author of many books on the history of design and taught book design, type and printing at the University of Mainz from 1947 until his death. All faces designed in collaboration with Walter Baum.
Alpha (Bauer, 1954)
Beta (Bauer, 1954), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha.
Folio (Bauer and Intertype, 1956-1963), also sold as Caravelle by Founderie Typographique Francaise. Imprimatur (Bauer, and Intertype, 1952-1955) also sold as Horizon by Founderie Typographique Francaise
Fortune or Volta (Bauer 1955)
Impressum (Amsterdam Type foundry and Bauer 1962).
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March 17, 1970 (aged 66) -
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Germany -
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