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Carmina Burana // Klaus-Peter Dienst

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (12)
Klaus-Peter Dienst and his brother Rolf-Gunther did a hero’s job of introducing a 1960′s French readership to the beats with their magazine Rhinozeros, which we wrote about in November when our Dienst obsession began.

Since then, we’ve snapped up a copy of Klaus-Peter Dienst’s 1962 typographic onslaught “Carmina Burana.” The exercise treats the Latin “O Fortuna” text of Carmina Burana to a heavy dose of black and white geometry. Thoroughly designed and generous with its variety of letterforms and structure, this is truly a labor of love by an impassioned typographer.

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (3)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (11)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (5)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (1)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (2)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (4)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (6)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (7)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (9)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (8)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (13)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (14)

Klaus-Peter Dienst - Carmina Burana (10)

shelf / graphic design typography / Klaus-Peter Dienst — posted on February 12th, 2013

rhinozeros magazine // klaus-peter dienst

Rhinozeros covers, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #10, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #9, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #7, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #5, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #3, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #2, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

Rhinozeros issue #1, via Jed Birmingham/Reality Studio

After a chance encounter at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, we have become fans of Klaus-Peter Dienst, a German calligraphist who published Rhinozeros magazine out of Hamberg in the 1960s. His collaborator on the magazine was his brother, Rolf-Gunter Dienst. Rhinozeros was a literary magazine, mostly in German, that occasionally featured Beat writers. Klaus-Peter did all of the calligraphy for each issue, sometimes incorporating a German translation of English works onto the page. Jed Birmingham is a William S. Burroughs biographer who has made the whole Rhinozeros archive (10 issues) available online.