[DE] Bauer

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1. Overview

1837-1972. 1837-1972. Bauersche Schriftgiesserei. Free city of Frankfort am Main in the German Confederation; thence to West Germany [via Kingdom of Prussia, then German Empire, then Wiemar Republic, Third Reich, then Occupied Germany, then Federal Republic of Germany.] In 1972 absorbed by "former subsidiary" Neufville.

Paul Duensing notes (a) "The famous Bauer foundry moved from Frankfurt to its former subsidiary, Neufville, in Barcelona" and "then absorbed several smaller foundries and finally, in 1984, the matrices and materials of Typefoundry Amsterdam." { Duensing, Paul Hayden. "Metal Type: Whither Ten Years Hence?" Fine Print. Vol. 11, No. 1 (January, 1985): 20 }

Type design (mid 20th century) by Roger Excoffon.


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