Weingart was born in 1941 in the Salem Valley, where spent his childhood. In 1954 he moved to Lisbon with his family and developed an interest in the local museums and for the arts.
In April 1958 he began his studies at the Merz Academy where he attended a two year program in applied graphic arts.
Between 1960 and 1963 he completed his training as typesetter in a small printing shop in Stuttgart, where he worked primarily doing hand composing. It was here that he first became familiar with Swiss typography.
In 1963 he presented his work to Emil Rudder and Armin Hofmann, founders of the Basel School of Applied Arts and established Swiss-style typographers.
Weingart moved to Basel in 1964, sat in at irregular intervals in the Basel School, and only began to study typography four years later, under the instruction of Ruder and Hofmann. He retired in 2004.
He was instructor at the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Switzerland from 1974 until 1996.
His work has been awarded a mark of excellence by the Swiss Federal Minister of the Interior in Berne. In May 2005 he was awarded the honorary title of Doctor Of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale from 1978 to 1999, and was on the editorial board of the Swiss typographic magazine Typographische Monatsblätter from 1970 to 1988.
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