Hanns Thaddäus Hoyer

Biography

Book artist, advertising, lettering, exlibris. Born 19 September 1886 in Kempen. Studied at art schools in Krefeld, Zurich, Düsseldorf, and at the Leipzig Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe. 1919-48: taught at the Hochschule für bildenden Künste, Berlin. Hoyer designed the typefaces Hoyer-Fraktur (Bauer) and Hoyer-Schönschrift (1939, Stempel). Died 1960 in Berlin.

Writings by

  • ‘Schrift und Gebrauchsgraphik’, Gg, (2nd year), v. 1, pp. 4-16 (subsequent pages reproduce work of numerous letterers), and cover design
  • review of Hermann Delitsch, Geschichte der abendländischen Schreibschrift-Formen, in Gg, 1929, v. 7, pp. 84-5.

Writings about

  • Walter F. Schubert, ‘Urkundengraphik’ (certificates), Das Plakat, May 1921, pp. 273-88
  • F.H. Ehmcke, ‘Das Gebrauchsexlibris’, Die Bücherstube, 1924, pp. 328-338
  • Ernst Collin, ‘Der Verleger-Einband’, Gg, 1925, v. 11, pp. 40-81 (esp. pp. 53-5)
  • DdW, 1927, pp. 226, 227
  • note on HTH’s typeface and Stempel, Gg, May 1939, p. 64
  • Heinrich Jost, ‘Die neue Buchkunst in Deutschland’ (typographic design changes), Imprimatur, 1939/40, pp. 105-28
  • Vollmer, II, 1955.