Hans-Joachim Burgert was a calligrapher, sculptor and educator, and the founder of the Burgert Handpresse, where he produced small-edition books and art prints.Rask-Arnesen, 1987, pp. 190–194.
Burgert developed several typefaces based on his calligraphy, as both metal type and photographic negatives.Ibid. With permission from his family, Monokrom has published a digital version of Burgert AnimataBurgert, 1979a. – a typeface first shown in Romanzen von Mauren und Christen und einem langen in Krief.Burgert, 1979b.
Burgert, H-J. (1979a). Burgert Animata [Photographic Typeface]. Burgert Handpresse.
Burgert, H-J. (1979b). Romanzen von Mauren und Christen und einem langen Krief [Ballads of Moors and Christians and a long war]. Burgert Handpresse.
Rask Arnesen, J. (1987). Levende skrift: fra begrep til lydskrift og massemedium [Living Writing: From Concept to Phonetic Writing and The Mass Medium]. Rask Arnesens Forlag.
