1933 Placed in ‘protective custody’ by the Nazis and lost his job in Munich.
Emigrated to Basel, Switzerland.

1933-40 Part-time work for publisher Benno Schwabe in Basel.

1935 Exhibition of Tschichold’s typography in the London office of Lund
Humphries Printers. Publication of Typographische Gestaltung.

1937 Paper read to Double Crown Club, London.

1941-6 Typographer to Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.

194z Awarded Basel citizenship.

Г947-9 Typographer for Penguin Books, London.

1949 Elected Honorary Member of the Double Crown Club, London.

1950-4 Lreelance work in Basel.

1955-67 Typographic adviser to the pharmaceutical firm L. Hoffmann-La Roche
in Basel.

1964 Began work on design of ‘Sabon’ typeface.

1965 Elected Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (Hon. rdi), London.
Gutenberg Prize of Leipzig.

1967 Visited USA. Lirst sizes of ‘Sabon’ appeared. Moved to Berzona.

1974 Died on и August in Locarno Hospital.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

WORKS BY TSCHICHOLD

Die neue Typographie, Berlin, 19x8 (ist edition).

Die neue Typographie, Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, 1987
(facsimile reprint).

[Published in English as The New Typography,
translated by Ruari McLean with an Introduction by
Robin Kinross, University of California Press, 1995.]

Typografische Entwurfstechnik, Stuttgart, 193z.

[Published in English as How to Draw Layouts,
translated by Ruari McLean, Merchiston Publishing,
Edinburgh, 1991 (limited edition of 150 copies).]

Typographische Gestaltung, Benno Schwabe, Basel,
1935-

[Published in English as Asymmetrie Typography,
translated by Ruari McLean, Reinhold, New York and
Faber and Faber, London, 1967.]

Designing Books, Wittenborn, Schultz, New York, 19 51
[short text and 58 reproductions, some in colour].

Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des
Buches und der Typographie, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1975.

[Published in English as The Form of the Book: Essays
on the Morality of Good Design, translated by Hajo
Hadeler, Hartley & Marks, Vancouver and Lund
Humphries Publishers, London, 1991.]

Schriften 1925-1974, Brinkmann &c Bose, Berlin,
z volumes, 1991 and 199z.

[A collection of Tschichold’s articles with illustrations.]

BOOKS ABOUT TSCHICHOLD

Jan Tschichold: Typograph und Schriftentwerfer 1902-
1974. Das Lebenswerk, Kunstgewerbemuseum Zurich,
1976.

[Lists everything written by or about Tschichold up to
1976, with short articles by Jost Hochuli, Kurt
Weidemann, Berthold Wolpe and Hans Peter Willberg.]

[Published in English as Jan Tschichold: Typographer and
Type Designer 1902-1974, translated by Ruari McLean,
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 198z.]

Ruari McLean, Jan Tschichold: Typographer, Lund
Humphries Publishers, London, and David R. Godine,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1975.

J.T. Johannes Tschichold, Iwan Tschichold, Jan
Tschichold, edited and published by Philipp Luidl,
Munich, 1976.

Leben und Werk des Typographen Jan Tschichold, with
an Introduction by Werner Klemke, Verlag der Kunst,
Dresden, 1977.

Hans Schmoller, Two Titans, Mardersteig and Tschichold:
A Study in Contrasts, The Typophiles, New York, 1990.

Paul Barnes {ed.), Jan Tschichold: Reflections and
Reappraisals, with contributions by twenty important
designers and Edith Tschichold, limited edition of zoo
copies printed by Stinehour Press, Vermont and published
by Typoscope, New York, 1995.

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