Karlgeorg Hoefer, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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German calligrapher and typographer
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About Karlgeorg Hoefer
- Karlgeorg Hoefer (6 February 1914 – 8 October 2000) was a German calligrapher and typographer.
- Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow (now Drzonów) in Silesia.
- He taught typography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (until 1970 "Werkkunstschule Offenbach").
- He held several calligraphy workshops for calligraphic societies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Boston, Minneapolis-St.
- Paul, Portland and Washington.
- In 1987 he founded the Schreibwerkstatt-Klingspor Offenbach and supported the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main. He designed fonts for Linotype, Klingspor, and Ludwig & Mayer, including the Permanent family and Permanent Headline. Today his most commonly seen font is the FE-Schrift, the standard font for German number plates. He died in Offenbach in 2000.
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