AP Walther, Radebeul-Friedensburg
| AP Walther, Radebeul-Friedensburg | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1913 |
| resolution | 1971 |
| Seat | Radebeul , previously Dresden |
| management | Alexander Paul Walther |
| Branch | Postcard publisher, specialist shop |
AP Walther, Radebeul-Friedensburg , at times with the addition of color photo workshops , was a company for the production and publishing of color photographs, especially postcards . It was initially based in Dresden, where it traded under the name Dresdner Farbenfotographische Werkstätte AP Walther ; In 1938 it moved to Radebeul .
history
The founder and owner of the company was the photographer Alexander Paul Walther, who opened a studio in 1913 and then founded the AP Walther color photographic workshop in Dresden in 1919 . From 1920 he had his studio at Reckestrasse 2 in Dresden. In 1929 he moved to Stübelallee 14. He ran his company in Dresden until the end of 1937. He had specialized in the production of color photography and color photographs as well as in large numbers of picture printing. During this time he became known nationwide for the quality of his natural color photography and received orders from other parts of Germany. He used the initials DFW as a company logo .
In 1938, Alexander Paul Walther moved his company to Radebeul at Burgstrasse 12 in the Kötzschenbroda-Oberort district , where it existed until 1971. After that, it became the “People's Own Company ( VEB ) Postkarten-Verlag 102 Berlin”. Until 1977 he published some of AP Walther's postcards in print and then went on to become part of the “VEB Bild und Heimat Reichenbach im Vogtland”.
literature
- 1913-1963. 50 years of the Dresden color photographic workshop AP Walther, Radebeul-Friedensburg. Radebeul 1963.
Web links
- Biographical data of Paul Walther at the Deutsche Fotothek
- Entry of the publisher in the postcard lexicon