VEB Typoart
VEB Typoart was the only type foundry of East Germany. It was a state-owned enterprise located in Dresden. The foundry's most influential art directors were Herbert Thannhäuser and Albert Kapr.History
VEB Typoart was created by the government of the German Democratic Republic in 1948 through a merger of several nationalised type foundries, including Schelter & Giesecke and Ludwig Wagner AG. It was subordinated to Zentrag, a state enterprise coordinating all GDR printing activity. Typoart's principal mission was to create typefaces for Eastern Germany and other Eastern Bloc countries. It was frequently ordered to plagiarise Western typefaces that Zentrag could not afford to license.
In the course of German reunification, Typoart was privatised as Typoart GmbH in 1989 and went bankrupt in 1995. The copyright status of its typefaces remained uncertain, and some of them have been reissued in digital form by other type foundries.Typefaces
Typoart's typefaces included:
