Walter Baum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Baum

German typographer

Date of Birth: 23-May-1921

Place of Birth: Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 08-Mar-2007

Profession: graphic designer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Walter Baum (23 May 1921 – 8 March 2007) was a German type designer, graphic artist and teacher.
Baum trained as a typesetter from 1935 to 1939, he resumed his studies after the war before becoming head of the graphics studio at the Bauer Type Foundry in 1948.
There he collaborated with Konrad Friedrich Bauer in designing many typefaces, including Fortune, the first Clarendon typeface with a matching italic.
From 1972 to 1986 he was director of the Kunstschule Westend in Frankfurt am Main.