- Victor Hammer, an Austrian by birth, was an internationally-renowned
calligrapher, painter, printer and type designer. Hammer left
Europe in 1938 and came to Aurora, New York, where he taught
at Wells College. At a 1948 exhibition of his art and books in
Chicago, Hammer met the president and a trustee of Transylvania
University in Lexington, Kentucky. That meeting led to Hammer's
being invited to Transylvania as artist in residence. Hammer
made books, art and furniture during his years in Kentucky and
invented yet one more typeface.
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