Louis Oppenheim

Louis Oppenheim (1879–1936) was a German graphic artist, painter and type designer.

Born in Coburg, Oppenheim studied in London from 1899 to 1906.

Oppenheim worked for the type foundry Berthold and created a handful of significant and widespread typefaces, all of which share modernist characteristics, such as Lo-Type and Fanfare which are still in wide use today.

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Obverse of the first coin of the Weimar Republic. Design by Louis Oppenheim.
Reverse of the first coin of the Weimar Republic. Design by Louis Oppenheim.