Justus Erich Walbaum was a very famous German type founder and punchcutter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. By simply starting his life off making confectioners molds, Justus Walbaum was later able to designed two of his most famous typefaces, Walbaum. and Walbaum Fraktur. Born in 1768, Justus Walbaum grew up the district of Haverlah called Steinlah, which is known more commonly as modern Lower Saxony. Unlike many Renaissance graphic artists who began their careers by engraving weapons
years had gone by, in 1916, a group of artists who were staying in a neutral area, Zurich, Switzerland, decided to get together as a protest group for an art movement, or non-movement, they called Dada. These artists were: Hans Arp, Johannes Baader, Johannes Theodor Baargeld, Erwin Blumenfeld, Jean Crotti, Katherine Sophie Drier, Marcel Duchamp, Viking Eggeling, Max Ernst, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Jefim Golyscheff, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hanna Höch, Richard Huelsenbeck