In 1975, Wolpe published a monograph on the Elizabethan writing-master John de Beauchesne. In 1967, Wolpe prepared revived editions of the early nineteenth century specimen books of London typefounder Vincent Figgins. In 1960, Wolpe published Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts, co-authored with Alfred Fairbank, World Publishing Company & Faber and Faber In this book Wolpe added an introduction, notes and translations of the written texts in the original.
Never widely released due to the war, digitised 2017.
Omagari's digitisation is used extensively by Tortoise Media. A digitisation was released in 2013 by Dinamo, and another in 2017 by Toshi Omagari as part of Monotype's Wolpe Collection. Pegasus, a roman typeface with similarities to Albertus, in Walter Tracy's words: "a roman with something of the angularity of the gothic." Less popular than Albertus, privately revived by Matthew Carter for the 1980 exhibition on Wolpe's work, adding an italic and bold.His typeface Albertus is used on the right. Typefaces Wolpe's cover art for A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin, published by Faber and Faber in 1965. In 2017 Wolpe's font design publisher Monotype released its Berthold Wolpe Collection, a set of updated digitisations of five Wolpe typefaces, and promoted them with an exhibition of Wolpe's work at the Type Museum in London. He also taught at the Frankfurt and Offenbach School of Art (1929–33), Camberwell School of Art (1948–53), Royal College of Art (1956–57) and City & Guilds of London School of Art.Ī retrospective exhibition of Wolpe's career was held at the V&A Museum in 1980 with Wolpe's involvement, and another in Mainz in 2006. In addition to Albertus, Wolpe designed several other typefaces. He remained at Faber until his retirement in 1975 and is estimated to have designed over 1,500 book covers and dust jackets. His use of Albertus and hand-painted lettering became strongly identified with Faber jackets in the years that followed, and continued from 1958 on the Faber paper covered Editions. He was permitted to return to England in 1941 and joined the production department at Faber and Faber. When World War II was declared Wolpe, along with other German nationals living in England, was sent to an internment camp in Australia. The typeface, Albertus, was first shown in 1935 and completed in 1940. In 1932 he visited London and met Stanley Morison, who invited Wolpe to design a printing type of capital letters for the Monotype Corporation. Wolpe began his career as an apprentice in a firm of metalworkers, followed by four years as a student of Rudolf Koch at the Offenbach Kunstgewerbeschule.
He was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1959, awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art in 1968 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England soon after the Nazis came to power in 1935 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.
Berthold Ludwig Wolpe OBE (29 October 1905 – 5 July 1989) was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator.
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