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Weltall und Weltgefühl

Photo(s) by Philipp Messner. Imported from Flickr on Oct 12, 2014. Artwork published in
1936
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    Weltall und Weltgefühl
    Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by Philipp Messner and tagged with “deutschland”. License: CC BY-NC.

    Detail from Satz- und Druck-Musterheft 1936 (no pagination)

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    1 Comment on “Weltall und Weltgefühl”

    1. Florian Hardwig says:
      Oct 13th, 2014 10:07 am

      Strange and scary to see these big lofty words (“Outer space”, “World feeling”) advertising a typeface with such a narrow-minded and opportunistically nationalist name, three years before World War II.

      See also Paul Shaw’s article on the 1938 edition of Satz- und Druck-Musterheft and the typography in Nazi Germany.

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