Otto Arpke was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and teacher at the Kunst- und Gewerbeschule in Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

. Arpke was famous for his designs for the movie Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari and posters for the North German Lloyd shipping line. He designed one type face, Arpke Antiqua (1928, Shriftguss type foundry

Shriftguss type foundry

Shriftguss was a German type foundry. As it was in the Eastern Zone, it was probably incorporated into VEB Typoart sometime after 1945.-Typefaces:These foundry types were produced by Shriftguss:...

) which is available in digital form as Taiko.