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Earlier topic: Block of type found- what machine created it?
Foundry type in Germany
I’m in communication with Rainer Gerstenberg in Germany. He started with Stempel and has been casting hot metal since 1963, billing himself as “the last trained typecaster in Europe.”
https://www.rainer-gerstenberg.de/?lang=en
He has space in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt, close to the birthplace of printing with moveable type. He tells me that the management of the museum is renovating and doing away with his foundry. He doesn’t know the future of all of his equipment. There should be a wider conversation about re-homing his foundry which includes 40 machines and typefaces, this shouldn’t be Rainer’s battle on his own.
Giesserei a.JPG
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