Georg Belwe (12 August 1878 – 1954) was a German type designer, typographer, graphic artist and teacher.

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Belwe was born on 8 December 1878 in Berlin, Germany. He studied and later taught at the teaching institute of Königliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in his native Berlin.^[1]

Belwe has produced numerous works for publishing houses which include:

• List
• Reclam
• Eugen Diederichs
• Westermann^[1]

His publications include:

• Albert Mundt "Georg Belwe und seine Klasse an der Königlichen Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe" in "Archiv für Buchgewerbe" In June 1910.^[1]

Belwe died in Ronneburg, Germany in 1954.^[1]

• Belwe Roman (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1907)
• Belwe Gotisch (1912)
• Belwe Schrägschrift (1913)
• Belwe halbfett (1914)
• Wieland (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1926)
• Fleischman (L. Wagner Type Foundry, 1927), based on the eighteenth century designs of Joan Michaël Fleischman
• Schönschrift Mozart (1927)
• Shakespere Medaeval (Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, 1927–1929)

• Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
• Friedl, Ott, and Stein, Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
• Macmillsn, Niel, An A-Z of Type Designers, Yale University Press, 2006.