It was back in 1935 when Zapf started on his course to teaching himself to become one of this centurys most significant type designers and calligraphers.
Hermann Zapf was born around the end of World War I, famine had struck the country and his mother had just enough money to send him to school in 1925.
While he was in school, Zapf perferred technical subjects. But even though he was so young, Zapf was already getting involved with type, exchanging secret alphabets with messages only his brother and him could read.

Once he graduated he wanted to pursue
a career in electrical engineering but he wasn't
able to attend the technical college he was planning on attending due to the new political form of government
in office. So he went for an apprenticeship with some of his teachers, but they noticed the new political difficulties, and suggested that he because
a lithographer due to his skill in drawing. He was continually rejected in interviews based on his politcal answers to......

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Title: Hermann Zapf, A Typographer
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