READING. Eine Schulterluxation ist nicht selten von einer Fraktur des Tuberculum majus begleitet, dem großen knöchernen Höcker am Oberarmkopf, wo die Rotatorenmanschette ansetzt. Besonders bei älteren ...
Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ⓘ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand.
Fraktur is a style of calligraphy that emerged during the 16th century in Germany. It is based on the blackletter style of writing that developed in France in the 12th century, and became the standard way to write in much of Europe.
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The name fraktur came to mean the folk art form as well as the letter style that is central to it. Pennsylvania Germans brought the use of fraktur on formal documents with them to the New World.
The Free Library of Philadelphia is home to one of the largest public collections of fraktur, highlighting a wide range of fraktur styles and artistic skills and showing how the designs changed over time.
Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more colorful, elaborate, and freehand, and far more apt to dominate the script it sought to embellish.
often fraktur : a Pennsylvania German document (such as a birth or wedding certificate) that is written in calligraphy and illuminated with decorative motifs (such as tulips, birds, and scrolls)