Some early adverts that present Akzidenz-Grotesk are co-signed by both brands. ) According to Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler and Kupferschmid, a likely source for some styles of Akzidenz-Grotesk is Berthold's 1897 purchase of the Bauer Foundry of Stuttgart (not to be confused with the much better-known Bauer Type Foundry of Frankfurt) Kupferschmid concludes that the design appears to be related to a shadowed sans-serif ('Schattierte Grotesk') sold by the Bauer Foundry and reviewed in a printing journal in 1896, and confusion may have occurred with fonts held by Berthold that the Theinhardt foundry licensed. Professor Indra Kupferschmid, who has researched the early use of sans-serifs in Germany, however reports that this cannot be a full explanation of the family's history: 'there must have been an Accidenz-Grotesk at Berthold before the acquisition of Theinhardtâs foundry in 1908.' (Early references to Akzidenz-Grotesk at Berthold often use the alternative spelling 'Accidenz-Grotesk'. This had been established by businessman and punchcutter Ferdinand Theinhardt, who was otherwise particularly famous for his scholarly endeavours in the field of hieroglyph and Syriac typefaces he had sold the business in 1885. It was claimed by Berthold's post-war artistic director Günter Gerhard Lange that a key source of Akzidenz-Grotesk was types from the Ferdinand Theinhardt type foundry.
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