Ludwig Hemmer
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Picture postcard number 602; photo around 1900
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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
[edit]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 , 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
[edit]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 , Stadtbaurat, vol. III (Regierungsbezirk Lüneburg), 1. Kreise Burgdorf and Landkreis Fallingbostel , with 2 plates and 62 text illustrations, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulze's Buchhandlung, Hannover 1902[9]
References
[edit]- ^ 1911 Ludwig Hemmer Lindener Berg mit Küchengarten-Pavillon on Alamy
- ^ a b c Paul Siedentopf: Ludwig Hemmer...
- ^ a b see for example imprint on dieser Ansichtskarte:
- ^ 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)
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Arnswaldtstraße, in Die Straßennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6, p. 29; Zimmermann cites the Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter from 1914, according to which the street was named "after the former von Arnswaldt property over which it runs".
- ^ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks)
- ^ see for example diese Ansichtskarte:
- ^ see for example diese Ansichtskarte mit Vorder- und Rückseite:
- ^ 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
[edit]- Paul Siedentopf : LUDWIG HEMMER, Graphische Kunstanstalt, in Das Buch der alten Firmen der Stadt Hannover im Jahre 1927, with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig (1927), p. 143
External links
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