Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
Eric Gill biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Eric Gill

Author Name:

Eric Gill

Born As:

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill

Other Names:

Born:

22 Feb 1882

Died:

17 Nov 1940




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Sculptor, engraver, typeface designer, stonecutter, printmaker and writer                          
Selected Works:

Typefaces:

Gill Sans - Gill's most famous typeface.

Eric Gill's types include:

Gill Sans - his most famous face and lasting legacy to typography -  1927–1930

Perpetua - 1926
Perpetua Greek - 1929
Golden Cockerel Press Type - for the Golden Cockerel Press - 1929
Solus - 1929
Joanna - based on work by Granjon - 1930– 1931
Aries - 1932
Floriated Capitals - 1932
Bunyan - 1934
Pilgrim - recut version of Bunyan - 1953
Jubilee - also known as Cunard - 1934

In his 1947–1949 redesign for Penguin Books, a project that resulted in the establishment of Penguin Composition Rules, Jan Tschichold specified use of Gill Sans for book titles, and in branding their Pelican imprint. In the 1990s, the BBC adopted Gill Sans for its wordmark and many of its on-screen television graphics.

Selected writings:

Bas relief in Lapworth parish church - 1928
A Holy Tradition of Working: An Anthology of Writings - Golgonooza Press - 1983
Clothes: An Essay Upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn by Men and Women - 1931 - Jonathan Cape
An Essay on Typography - 1931

Christianity and Art - 1927
Art - 1934
Work and Property - 1937
Gill - Eric - 1937. Trousers & The Most Precious Ornament.
Work and Culture - 1938

Autobiography: Quod Ore Sumpsimus - Jonathan Cape - 1940 - published posthumously.                          
                          
                          
A deeply religious man, largely following the Roman Catholic faith.

Eric Gill kept personal diaries describing his sexual activity in great detail.
Gill's wrote about the sexual abuse of his children, adulteries, including sex with the maid, incestuous relationship with his sister, and sex with his dog.

Eric Gill became a member of the lay order of the Dominicans and took to wearing the girdle of chastity with his monastic.

Gill's three daughters were home schooled. Gill was habitually abusing his two elder daughters - while drawing the pubescent girls, as in 'Girl in Bath'.

The former Westminster Cathedral administrator, Bishop George Stack, retains an unequivocal view.

"There was no consideration given to taking his art work down.  A work of art stands in its own right. Once it has been created it takes on a life of its own."