Georg Trump β born 10. 7. 1896 in Brettheim, Germany, died 21. 12. 1985 in Munich, Germany β graphic artist, typographer, type designer, painter, teacher.
1912β14: studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart under J. V. Cissarz and from 1919β23 under F. H. E. Schneidler. 1921: assistant at the school. 1923β26: ceramic artist in Italy. 1926β29: professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Bielefeld. 1930β35: works with the H. Berthold AG type foundry in Berlin and from 1937 onwards with the C. E. Weber type foundry in Stuttgart. 1931β34: director of the HΓΆhere grafische Fachschule in Berlin. 1934β53: succeeds Paul Renner as director of the Meisterschule fΓΌr Deutschlands Buchdrucker in Munich. 1982: awarded a medal by the Type Directors Club of New York. His work has been exhibited in Gallery 303 in New York (1966), in the Stadtmuseum in Munich (1981) and in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach (1983), among other venues. Trump initially worked in the style of "New Typography" but later adopted an individual, scriptural style.
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