| LC control no. | no2014135403 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cyliax, Walter, 1899-1945 |
| See also | Employer: Gebr. Fretz (Firm) |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Associated place | Zurich (Switzerland) Vienna (Austria) |
| Birth date | 1899 |
| Death date | 1945 |
| Field of activity | Printing Type and type-founding |
| Affiliation | Gebr. Fretz (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Printers Photographers Authors Designers |
| Found in | Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The marble faun, or, The romance of Monte Beni, 1931. Bibliography of fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, 1985: page 6 (Walter Cyliax, book designer of The marble faun) Museum of Modern Art, via WWW, 14 October 2014 (Walter Cyliax, German artist, 1899-1945) Thisdisplay.org, 14 October 2014 (Walter Cyliax, 1899-1945; art director (Fretz Brothers); influential figure in promoting the New Photography) Swiss graphic design, 2006: page 31 (Walter Cyliax, 1899-1945; German print manager, art director, designer, photographer, writer; came to Switzerland in the early 1920s; art director of Fretz Brothers, a large Zurich printing firm; one of the first designers in Switzerland to adopt the New Typography; co-founder of Typographische Monatsblätter; returned to Germany in 1936 and then moved to Austria where he managed an "aryanized" printing firm in Vienna; died during a bombing raid) |
| Associated language | ger |
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