Otto Eckmann
Painter and designer
German Jugendstil artist whose Eckmann typeface turned blackletter into plant forms.
Otto Eckmann sold his paintings in 1894 and turned instead to applied art, book decoration and the magazine Pan.
His typeface Eckmann for Klingspor in 1900 became the best-known German Jugendstil type; he died of tuberculosis in 1902.