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Gangbare naam: Koch, Rudolf
Geboortedatum: 1876-11-20
Overlijdensdatum: 1934-04-09
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: Germany
Geboorteplaats: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Plaats van overlijden: Offenbach, Hesse, Germany
Oorzaak van overlijden: heart attack
Woonplaatsen: Offenbach, Hesse, Germany
Opleiding: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg
Beroepen: type designer
calligrapher
Organisaties: Klingspor Type Foundry
Korte biografie: Koch spent his teenage years working in Hanau as an apprentice in a metal goods workshop, whilst also attending art school, where he learned to draw, and soon after went to the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. Between 1897 and 1906 he worked for various businesses in the book trade in Leipzig, illustrating and designing book covers in the Art Nouveau style that was popular at the time.[1] In 1906 Koch began working for the Rudhard Type foundry in Offenbach, later known as the Klingspor Type foundry. Other notable designers who worked for the foundry include Otto Eckmann and Peter Behrens.[2]

Koch was deeply spiritual and a devout Lutheran, spending much of his time working on religious publications and manuscripts, of which he completed nearly a hundred in his lifetime. Koch viewed the alphabet as humanity's ultimate achievement.[3] He died prematurely of a heart attack in 1934, aged 57.

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The book of signs door Rudolf Koch

This strange and fascinating little book was in my library for longer than I recall.

It's mostly filled with Christian and European and Middle East sources. Nothing from Asia, Oceana, the Americas. It has a patriarchal, religious slant, and I don't know how it stands up to contemporary interpretation of symbol meanings.

Still, I've thumbed through it many times with pleasure and curiosity.

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mykl-s | 4 andere besprekingen | May 28, 2023 |

The Book of Signs: Which Contains All Manner of… door Rudolf Koch

A book of symbols, explained by one Rudolf Koch and illustrated with woodblock prints by one Fritz Kredel. The translation into English is done by Vyvyan Holland, the son of Oscar Wilde, which makes it a strange peice to have. The font is also by Kredel, and not a user friendly type. The capital A's are odd, and it takes awhile for you to train yourself on all the letter shapes. The symbols are split into various sections, and the text is quite informative, though sometimes a tad mystical. Good set of Christian monograms—a whole section on Christograms. Good sections on alchemical symbols, astrological symbols, and runes. A decent reference work and quick read. Odd bit of trivia with this book, it is the book that the band Led Zeppelin got some of their symbols out of for the untitled fourth album.… (meer)

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tuckerresearch | 4 andere besprekingen | Mar 24, 2023 |

The little ABC book of Rudolf Koch = a facsimile of… door Rudolf Koch

As the title states: "a facsimile", which suggests to me that The Typophiles should read this. As a calligrapher of sorts, the alphabets of Koch are an inspiration to me.

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dirving57 | Apr 1, 2022 |

The Book of Signs: Which Contains all Manner of… door Rudolf Koch

Does what it says on the tin, really. A collection of nicely reproduced drawings of early symbols (religious/alchemical/astronomical/masonic/runic), with some possible readings of each. The typeface takes a bit of getting used to.

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