Fraktur (folk art)
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Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illustrated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Place of creation also includes Alsace, Switzerlan
An ornate Taufschein, or baptismal certificate
This 1789 Pennsylvania German chest of drawers show many of the traditional forms that are used in fraktur
Fraktur birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts und Taufschein) of Johanes Bender by Johann Heinrich Otto
Fraktur Christening Certificate, c. 1936, by Ella Josephine Sterling, Index of American Design. Image from the National Gallery of Art
Fraktur
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Fraktur is a book hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. It is designed such that the beginnings and ends of the individual strokes that make up ea
Fraktur (folk art)
…Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illustrated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Place of creation also includes Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland which also contributed to the folk art. Most Fraktur…
A Czech example of Fraktur: Title page of Česká mariánská muzika by Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (1647) ("Cżeská maryánska muzyka" by old orthography)
Front page of Gustav Vasa's Bible from 1541, printed using Fraktur
Anti-Polish German notice in German-occupied Poland, 1939: "No entry for Poles!" written with fraktur (German: Zutritt für Polen verboten!)