Friedrich Peter

About the Artist

Friedrich Peter is an artist, calligrapher, and teacher who immigrated from Germany to Vancouver in 1957. He is internationally known for designing widely used typefaces, including Vivaldi (1966) and Magnificat (1972), as well as several book illustrations, murals, postage stamps, coins, and medals. His calligraphic paintings of biblical texts emerged from “a reverential attempt to help see, read and speak anew” scriptural words of life: “[God’s] entry into my time and space as the ‘Living Word’ is beyond my comprehension. But I try to express in visible form and in letters, what I am persuaded by, His reality and truth.”