Contributors |
| Fritz
Amberger 1900 - 1950 |
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 Fritz
Amberger got his start in graphic arts in his father's printing plant
in Zurich. He studied art in Zurich and later in Geneva with the Swiss
painter Ferdinand Hodler. He worked at the Bauer Type Foundry and
as art director for the German vintner Kupferberg Gold. He taught
art at the School for Industrial Art in Mainz, Germany. He was alsoa
partner in a printing firm specializing in catalogues. He spent a
year in Haiti working as the foreign editor and mechanical superintendent
of a newspaper plant. From Haiti he came to the United States.  Once
in the US he lectured at NYU and designed typefaces, packaging, book
jackets, bindings and posters for such firms as American Brass Co.,
E. I. duPont, Holeproof Hosiery, Lee Tires, Metro - Goldwyn Mayer
and The Reynolds Corp. |
Issues: March 1937 |
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