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Otto Arpke

Otto Arpke was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line. He designed one type face, Arpke Antiqua which is available in digital form as Taiko.

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Otto Arpke
Born(1886-10-16)16 October 1886
Braunschweig, Germany
Died4 December 1943(1943-12-04) (aged 57)
Berlin
Known forGraphic Arts

Otto Arpke (16 October 1886 – 4 December 1943) was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line.1 He designed one type face, Arpke Antiqua (1928, Shriftguss type foundry)2 which is available in digital form as Taiko.3

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  1. Friedl, Ott, and Stein, Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7, pp 94-95
  2. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 10
  3. "Otto Arpke". MyFonts. 22 February 1999. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
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