Jan Tschichold
Presentation by: Morgan Bruggeman
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Table of Contents Background ....................... 3 Die neue Typographie ..... 5 Selected works .................. 7 Type Faces ....................... 13 Jan Tschichold ................. 17 References ........................ 19 2
Jan Tschichold Jan Tschichold was born on April 2, 1902 in Leipzig, Germany. . Tschichold grew up the son of a sign painter and a letttering artist. He often helped his father with the sign painting and lettering, which helped him learn at an early age about lettering. Jan wished to become an artist, which his parents were skeptical about. As a compromise they all had decided that he would become a teacher of drawing. At 14 years old, Tschichold was sent to the Teacher Training College at Grimma. Jan Tschichold’s work was greatly influenced by the Bauhaus movement, after he had went to an exhibition held by Weimar Bauhaus.
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Jan Tschichold 1920
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Die Die neue neue Typographie Typographie Tschichold authored the book “Die neue Typographie” which was a particular movement in Germany. “Die neue Typographie” can be equated with the term “modern typography”. “Die neue Typographie” was published in Berlin in 1928, and it defined and described what exactly “modern typography” was. Tschichold described it as being new attitude towards typography and printing. The new attitude was seen to reject decoration, making it strictly functional. It was an expression of the new age machine, being simple and pure, and also universal. Tschichold was seen to have been the first to formulate these theories into a system to show how the “modernist” movement in art could relate to ordinary printing.
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Prospectus for Die neue Typography, 1928. Reduced. Original in black and yellow.
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Selected works
Title-page of Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. Designed by Tschichold, 1945.
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Single-alphabet type designed by Tschichold, 1929.
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Selected works
Tschichold’s first revision of the penguin cover, with the penguin cover redrawn, 1949.
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Lettering by Tschichold,1923.
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Selected works
Poster design. Jan Tschichold, 1927
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Cover drawn by Tschichold for a Leipzig printer’s leaflet, 1923.
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Type faces Jan Tschichold designed various type faces such as: -Classical Garamond -Iwan Reschniev -Iwan Stencil -Sabon -Waddem Choo NF -Zeus -Saskia -Transit
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Drawings for Sabon by Jan Tschichold
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Type faces
Sabon by Jan Tschichold
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Iwan Stencil by Jan Tschichold
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Jan Tschichold
In 1933 Jan Tschichold was accused by the Nazi Government of “Kulturbolschewismus” and of creating “un-german” typography. He then fled Germany and took refuge in Basle. Shortly after the second world war, Tschichold began to stray away from “modern typography” which he then returned to strictly classical and symmetrical style of typography which he criicized during the past decade. Jan continued his work in Switzerland where he then died on August 11, 1947.
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References Spencer, Herbert. Pioneers of Modern Typography. New York: Hastings House, 1970. Print. McLean, Ruari. Jan Tschichold: Typographer. London: Lund Humphries Limited, 1975. Print.
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