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Ludwig Hemmer

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Picture postcard with consecutive number 12 (Ernst-August monument [de]) and a "Congratulations on the new year" by Ludwig Hemmer + Frau, née Buerschaper, from the Arnswaldstraße 13
Picture postcard without numbering, titled "The dwarf village and its inhabitants".
Entry of the Schützenverein into the "Rundteil" on the old Schützenplatz [de].
Picture postcard number 602; photo around 1900
ca 1900: postcard Number 6 "Hannover. Ernst-August-Platz", collotype and publishing by Ludwig Hemmer
Coloured view from the Lower Saxony State Museum across the square of the not-yet-built New Town Hall to the Friedrichswall [de]; the additional printing for the "II Association Day of the Lower Saxony Stenotachygraph [de] Association 2.-3. May 1903" classifies this document as a so-called "event" or "souvenir" card
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Ludwig Hemmer (? - 1925) was a German printer and graphic artist in Hanover.[2] The versatile entrepreneur, photographer and publisher of numbered postcards distributed his works produced in collotype under the name "L. Hemmer".[3]

Life

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The Graphische Kunstanstalt was founded in 1876 by a Mr Hammers († 1899). In 1897, Hemmer became a partner in the company, which then traded as "Hammers & Hemmer". In 1902, Hammers was no longer named when the firm was mentioned.[4] In Paul Siedentopf's ...Buch der alten Firmen... (see further reading), next to the company logo "LH" in a square are the headings "Ludwig Hemmer, Graphische Kunstanstalt / collotype, prints, clichés, Designs, drawings, commercial art, advertising art" and as address Arnswaldtstraße 13,[2] which was created as a street in 1888.[5]

From this address, the picture postcard with the serial number 12 is known with a view of the Ernst-August-Denkmal [de], which was handwritten by "Ludwig Hemmer + Frau, geb. Buerschaper" and addressed to the family August Reese.[6]

After Hemmer's death, the company became Walter Hemmer in 1925.[2]

Work

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Similar to his Hanoverian colleague Karl Friedrich Wunder, Hemmer also produced

  • a still unexplored number of numbered, partly also colorized picture postcards.[3] So far, numbering greater than 600 could be identified.[7]
  • an unknown number of picture postcards without numbering.[8]

Hemmer's Kunstanstalt provided the printing blocks of the text illustrations.[9]

  • Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover, edition commissioned by the Provincial Commission for the Research and Preservation of Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Dr. phil. Carl Wolff [de], Stadtbaurat, vol. III (Regierungsbezirk Lüneburg), 1. Kreise Burgdorf and Landkreis Fallingbostel [de], with 2 plates and 62 text illustrations, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulze's Buchhandlung, Hannover 1902[9]

References

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  1. ^ 1911 Ludwig Hemmer Lindener Berg mit Küchengarten-Pavillon on Alamy
  2. ^ a b c Paul Siedentopf: Ludwig Hemmer...
  3. ^ a b see for example imprint on dieser Ansichtskarte:
  4. ^ Carl Wolff (ed.), Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover. III. administrative district of Lüneburg. 1. districts of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel, Hanover 1902, p. IV (PDF; 11.4-MB)
  5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann [de]: Arnswaldtstraße, in Die Straßennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung [de], Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6, p. 29; Zimmermann cites the Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter [de] from 1914, according to which the street was named "after the former von Arnswaldt property over which it runs".
  6. ^ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks)
  7. ^ see for example diese Ansichtskarte:
  8. ^ see for example diese Ansichtskarte mit Vorder- und Rückseite:
  9. ^ a b see Archive.org: Digital copy of the book:, but the collotypes were made by the Kunstanstalt von Georg Alpers junior for the book.

Further reading

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  • Paul Siedentopf [de]: LUDWIG HEMMER, Graphische Kunstanstalt, in Das Buch der alten Firmen der Stadt Hannover im Jahre 1927, with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt [de] (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig (1927), p. 143
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