{{Short description|German type designer, graphic artist and teacher}} {{for|the American artist and educator|Walter Emerson Baum}} {{Infobox artist | name = Walter Baum | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|5|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Gummersbach, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|3|8|1921|5|23|df=y}} | death_place = Bad Soden, Germany | known_for = typography | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }}
'''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 World War II 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.
==Fonts Designed by Walter Baum== Letterpress print of Impressum regular.|thumb All faces were designed in collaboration with Konrad Friedrich Bauer. * '''Alpha''' (Bauer, 1954) * '''Beta''' (Bauer, 1954), an alternate set of lower-case letters for Alpha. * '''Folio''' (Bauer and Intertype, 1956–63), also sold as ''Caravelle'' by Founderie Typographique Francaise. * '''Imprimatur''' (Bauer, and Intertype, 1952–55) also sold as ''Horizon'' by Founderie Typographique Francaise * '''Fortune''' or ''Volta'' (Bauer 1955) * '''Impressum''' (Amsterdam Type foundry and Bauer 1962)
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===General references=== {{more footnotes needed|date=May 2021}} *{{cite book |last1=Jaspert |first1=W. Pincus |last2=Berry |first2=William Turner |last3=Johnson |first3=Alfred Forbes |title=The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces |date=1970 |publisher=Blandford Press |isbn=978-0-7137-0191-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekLhAAAAMAAJ }} * {{cite book |last1=Friedl |first1=Friedrich |last2=Ott |first2=Nicolaus |last3=Stein |first3=Bernard |title=Typography |date=7 January 1998 |publisher=Running Press |isbn=978-1-57912-023-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-M2bHQBITiQC |language=fr}} * {{cite book |last1=Macmillan |first1=Neil |title=An A-Z of Type Designers |date=January 2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-11151-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxV4qEolEo8C}}
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