Hans Bohn
German artist
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| Intro | German artist | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Designer Artist Graphic designer | |
| Work field | Arts Creativity | |
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| Birth | 23 December 1891, Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany | |
| Death | 10 May 1980Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany (aged 88 years) |
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Hans Bohn (December 23, 1891 – May 10, 1980) was a German graphic artist and typographer. He developed the fonts Orplid, Mondial, Allegro, and the heavier weight of Kuenstler Script.
After training at the Technische Lehranstalt in Offenbach, he began his professional career at the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1914. From 1919 to 1930, he worked at Gebr. Klingspor. Afterwards he was a freelance graphic designer. He produced fonts and graphic arts for the Ludwig & Mayer foundry, a major German foundry, in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he produced the Kuenstler font for the D Stempel AG foundry.