Motteroz, Jean-Claude
Jean-Claude Motteroz (1830 - 1910) was a printer active in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th century. Motteroz was born into a family of printers in Saône-et-Loire, but nonetheless focused on a variety of trades, from bricklayer to locksmith, before settling on a carer as a typesetter. He worked in Saint-Étienne, then in Lyon, then as lithographer in Paris, and a pressman in Dijon. In 1874, he established an atelier (Imprimerie Motteroz) in Paris specializing in photolithography, a very cutting-edge technology at the time, on which he wrote two pieces that were influential in the printing world. Motteroz printed a wide variety of works, including opera and theater playbills and schoolbooks that were adopted by the French municipal schools. He also developed a distinctive typeface that was adopted by other printers in the late 19th century. Late in his life (c. 1906), the firm changed its name to Imprimerie Motteroz et Martinet, seemingly a merger with another firm, Imprimerie Martinet, which had operated since 1847. After Motteroz's death, the firm continued again as Imprimerie Martinet and continued until about 1916.
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