Reinhard Piper

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Reinhard Maria Wilhelm Ludwig Piper (born October 31, 1879 in Penzlin , † October 18, 1953 in Munich ) was a German publisher . He founded 1904 in Munich the publisher R. Piper & Co.

Life

Reinhard Piper grew up as the son of castle researcher and mayor Otto Piper, initially in Penzlin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1889 to 1893 the family lived in Konstanz on Lake Constance, where the father worked as a freelance castle researcher. In 1893 the Piper family moved to Munich. After the one year old (secondary school leaving certificate), Reinhard Piper completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in the Palmschen Hofbuchhandlung in Munich from 1895–1898 and worked in the Berlin bookshop Adolf Weber from 1898–1901 . In 1900 he met the sculptor and writer Ernst Barlach , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. 1902–1903 he worked in the bookstore Köhler in Dresden . In the same year he published his first book with Dafnis von Arno Holz . On May 19, 1904, he and Georg Müller founded the R. Piper & Co. publishing house in Munich. As a result, the publisher published Dostoyevsky's Complete Works and numerous books on art. Also 49 pictures from the Isenheim Altarpiece .

After the divorce from his first wife, Piper married the painter Gertrud Engling from Königsberg in 1910, son Klaus was born in 1911, son Martin in 1913 and daughter Ulrike in 1923. In 1912 Piper first met the painter Max Beckmann . Piper was in contact with artists from the group Der Blaue Reiter such as Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky , whose almanac Der Blaue Reiter he published. Since 1923, Piper has also published reproductions of paintings by old and new masters, the so-called Piper prints . He took part in the cabaret The Elf Executioners . In 1953, Piper died of a stroke .

His estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Fonts

  • The animal in art . Piper, Munich 1910
  • The lovers in art . Piper, Munich 1916
  • In memory of my father . Private print 1921
  • The beautiful woman in art . Piper, Munich 1923
  • Morning. A publisher's memories . Piper Munich 1947.
  • Afternoon. A publisher's memories . Piper, Munich 1950.
  • Afterglow. 45 unpublished drawings with a little chat about yourself (to Alfred Kubin ) . Piper, Munich 1952

Documents

  • Reinhard Piper: Correspondence with authors and artists 1903–1953 . Piper, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-492-02455-6 .
  • Max Beckmann : Letters to Reinhard Piper . Kulturstiftung der Länder / Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 1994.
  • Alfred Kubin / Reinhard Piper. Correspondence 1907–1953 . Published on behalf of the literary archive of the Austrian National Library and Agnes Essl as the founder of Marcel Illetschko and Michaela Hirsch. With 123 drawings by Alfred Kubin and one drawing by Reinhard Piper. Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05403-4 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This date of death names the majority of biographical reference works and also his tombstone. There are a few different death dates on the web: October 21, 1953 and January 21, 1953 , the last of which is likely to be a typographical error or an error.

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personal data
SURNAME Piper, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piper, Reinhard Maria Wilhelm Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, founder of Piper-Verlag
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Penzlin
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1953
Place of death Munich