Adolf May
| Adolf May | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1878 |
| Seat | Dresden - Johannstadt , Saxony |
The lithographic institution Adolf May was a Dresdner produced companies, the popular prints.
The company was founded in 1878 by the businessman Friedrich Adolf May as a lithographic establishment and lithographic printing company. Since the owner Carl Spick was a staunch Catholic, he put emphasis on wall decorations and cheap images of saints for the Catholic population. In 1882 Friedrich Adolf May took over the business. In the three emperor's year of 1888, pictures of princes and later landscape and genre scenes were added to the production.
In 1888 Adolf May jun. (Ferdinand Adolf May) employee and co-owner in 1895. During this time the company rose to become an actual mass manufacturer. After the plant was relocated to a new factory building in Glashütter Straße 98 in 1896/97, it became a pioneer in Central Europe. Adolf May was the first to bring large-format chromolithographs onto the market around 1900. When Adolf May sen. He died in 1908 and his son became the sole owner.
In 1911 the company merged with the art print and publishing company Müller & Lohse to form Kunstanstalten Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Adolf May and Müller and Lohse. From a further merger in 1914 with the competing Frankfurt company EG May Söhne , the Kunstanstalten May AG (KAMAG) emerged.
literature
- Wolfgang Brückner : Petty bourgeois and affluent bourgeois wall decorations in the 20th century. In art and consumption - mass image research (= folklore as historical cultural studies 6; publications on folklore and cultural history 82). Pp. 407-444. Wuerzburg 2000
- Wolfgang Brückner, Christa Pieske : The picture factory. Documentation on the art and social history of industrial wall decoration production between 1845 and 1973 using the example of a large company. Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt 1973