Fritz Helmut Ehmcke

Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878–1965) was a German graphical designer, typographer and illustrator.

Born in Inowrocław, Prussia (now Poland), Ehmcke was educated as a lithographer in Berlin during 1893–1897. In 1900, he was a co-founder of Steglitzer Werkstatt.

From 1903, he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf, from 1913 to 1938 in Munich, during 1920-1921 also in Zürich. During 1946 to 1948, he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

He designed a number of typesets, notably Ehmcke-Antiqua and Ehmcke-Kursiv in 1909/10 (adopted for English-language typesetting by Stephenson Blake under the name Carlton).

Typesets

Ehmcke Antiqua (1908 Flinsch) Ehmcke Kursiv (1910 Flinsch) Ehmcke Fraktur (1912 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Rustika (1914 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Schwabacher (1914 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Schwabacher halbfett (1915 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Fraktur halbfett (1917 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Mediaeval (1922 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Mediaeval kursiv (1923 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Mediaeval halbfett (1924 D. Stempel AG) Ehmcke Latein (1925 Ludwig & Mayer) Ehmcke-Latein halbfett (1925 Ludwig & Mayer) Ehmcke Brotschrift (1927 Rupprecht Presse) Ehmcke Elzevir (1927 L. Wagner) Ehmcke Elzevir kräftig (1930 L. Wagner)