Born in Austria, 1927–2010. In 1952, together with Hans Kaiser and Sylvester Lička, founded the graphic art studio Vorarlberger Grafik (VG). In the early 1970s he designed four display fonts for Berthold and Letraset. After diverging to corporate design, he returned to type design in the 1990s with fonts for ITC, Monotype, and FontFont.