Genzsch & Heyse, A.G.

Genzsch & Heyse Schriftgießerei A.G.

Type	Aktiengesellschaft
Industry	Type foundry
Headquarters	Hamburg, Germany

Genzsch & Heyse was a German type foundry established in Hamburg. ^[1] In the 1920’s and 30’s, G+H types were sold in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association.^[2]

Typefaces

The following foundry types were issued by the Trennert foundry^[3]:

• Alte Schwabacher (before 1936)
• Arkona + Fett (before 1936)
• Bodoni + Halbfette + Kursiv (before 1936)
• Brahms Gotisch (before 1936)
• Fette Antiqua (before 1936)
• Friedrich Bauer Grotesk (before 1936, Friedrich Bauer), in adition to a basic face, there were three other versions, Magere, Kräftige, Halbfette, Fette, and Schmale Halbfette. Also cast by the Trennert Type Foundry.
• Fridericus Antiqua + Halbfette + Fette (before 1936)
• Genzsch Antiqua (before 1936), in adition to a basic face, there were several other versions, Halbfette, Fette, Kursiv, Halbfette Kursiv, and Fette Zeitungskursiv.
• Halbfette Antiqua (before 1936)
• Heyse + Semi-Bold (1924, Friedrich Bauer)
• Leibniz Fraktur + Grobe (before 1936)
• Nofretete + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Olympia 1 + 2 (before 1936)
• Phalanx + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Richard Wagner Fraktur + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Römische Antiqua (before 1897) later sold by Inland Type Foundry as MacFarland and by A.D. Farmer & Son as Bradford, matrices for machine composition later offered by Lanston Monotype, also as MacFarland.^[4]
• Semper Antiqua + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Senats Fraktur + Halbfette (before 1936)
• Sparta (before 1936)

References

1. ^ Genzmer, Fritz, "Das Buch des Setzers," 1948.
2. ^ Specimen Book of Continental Types, Continental Type Founders Association, N.Y.C., 1929.
3. ^ List of foundry types taken from these sources:
   • Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 2408-249.
   • "Foundry Type Fonts of German Type Foundries at the End of the Nazi Era Pro". Ulrich Stiehl. 1999-02-22. http://www.sanskritweb.net/fontdocs/genzmer.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-09. 
4. ^ Eckman, James, The Inland Type Foundry, 1894-1911, PAGA, vol. 8, 1960, pp. 34 & 39.