Same Bold Stories? Typeface Design by Women and Queers in the 20th and 21st Centuries

For a long time, the history of type design and typography was presented from a purely male perspective. Now research in the field of type design is increasingly turning its attention to women who were already active in type production at the beginning of the 20th century without really becoming visible. 

The exhibition "Same Bold Stories?" aims to search the historical type-related collection of the Klingspor Museum (1900 - 1950) for these female positions and to supplement the historiography of type design with their biographies and works. Only a few women, such as Anna Simons, Erika Giovanna Klien or Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, achieved greater fame during their lifetime. There are also female type designers such as Elizabeth Friedländer, Ilse Schüle, Anna Maria Schildbach, Maria Ballé and numerous students, for example from the type classes of Rudolf von Larisch in Vienna and Rudolf Koch in Offenbach, who are included in the collection and are now being focused on for the first time.