"In her book Schrift und Schreiben (Leipzig, 1972), Hildegard Korger showed an "alphabet in the style of an italic Egyptienne" and two sets of decorative capitals derived from it - one with highlights and one with open letterforms - credited to Volker Küster, 1966. According to Günther Flake's biography of Küster, Black Bull is the title of a design for an Egyptienne typeface in three styles, drawn as part of his diploma project at HGB Leipzig in the mid-1960s. Korger doesn't mention the name "Black Bull", but Ihave to assume that the samples in her book show Küster's graduation project."
" was not produced as a proper typeface. It still got around, as Korger's book was distributed abroad, including to "socialist brother countries" of the GDR, like Bulgaria and the USSR, where it inspired local designers. I'm aware of two Cyrillic adaptations of the all-caps highlight style that were reproduced in Soviet books, in Шрифт (Leningrad, 1975) and in Декоративные шрифты (Minsk, 1987). The latter is credited to Oleh Snarsky, a Ukrainian lettering artist who drew numerous alphabets for lettering manuals and alphabet source books, including original designs and Cyrillic adaptations of existing ones. Snarsky had previously shown sample words based on Küster's alphabet in his Шрифты/Алфавиты для рекламных и декоративно-оформительских работ "
1977 Balkanton released an album of George Gershwin compositions performed by pianist Teodor Moussev with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Vladigerov. The composer's name on the cover appears in inclined caps from an extrabold slab serif reproduced from an alphabet sample rather than a produced typeface. Hildegard Korger's 1972 book shows an "alphabet in the style of an italic Egyptienne" and decorative capitals credited to Volker Küster (1966); Günther Flake's biography identifies Black Bull as Küster's Egyptienne diploma design from mid-1960s Leipzig. Black Bull was not released as a typeface, but Korger's book circulated to Bulgaria and the USSR and inspired Cyrillic adaptations, including work credited to Oleh Snarsky. The record cover features Latin and Cyrillic letterforms based on Black Bull, possibly copied from Korger's samples.
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