Albert Haemmerle

Albert Haemmerle , also Hämmerle , (born April 27, 1899 in Augsburg , † January 27, 1976 in Munich ) was a German art and paper historian who was particularly well-known internationally as an expert in colored paper .

Life

As a young man, founding director Peter Jessen familiarized him with the holdings of the State Art Library in Berlin and the colored paper collection there. First he worked at the Maximilian Museum in Augsburg under the direction of the archaeologist Ludwig Ohlenroth . A museum scandal led to both dismissals. Although he was fully rehabilitated, he was only able to work as a freelance researcher afterwards. In the following decades he dealt intensively with the history of the city of Augsburg, its citizens and artisans. He edited wedding books, personal property books, membership directories and necrologies. He was interested in the emergence of lithography and photography. He published many of his research results as private prints or in the quarterly annuals he founded in 1935 on the art and history of Augsburg , including a first work on Augsburg colored paper. This research recommended him to Buntpapierfabrik AG, Aschaffenburg, and its first board member, Guido Dessauer , as the author of a history of colored paper that was to appear on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the colored paper mill in 1961. He reactivated his contacts with the colored paper collector Olga Hirsch, who had emigrated to Cambridge . Her collection and her specialist library were thus available for his work (today this collection is located as The Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers in the British Library in London ). Appropriately supported by his clients, he was able to visit important cultural centers and do research there. Among other things, he visited the cities of Nuremberg, Leipzig, Berlin, Venice, Rome, Vienna, Paris and London with more or less great success and compiled a large amount of image material.

The result was the important standard work on the history of colored paper - Der Haemmerle . It dealt with the emergence of colored paper , the profession of colored paper and the colored paper trade. This was followed by a detailed presentation of the techniques of colored paper and their history - among other things, monochrome coated papers, speckled papers, velor papers, the colored papers of the Middle East and the "Turkish paper" , model printing papers, bronze varnish papers, colored papers in copper engraving, embossed brocade papers, old ones Metal papers , French domino papers, paste papers including the Moravian papers, calico papers, morocco papers and other imitation papers, finally fantasy papers. Colored paper from industrial production and colored paper from handicraft production from the early 20th century, however, were only mentioned cursory, naming a large number of producers. One edition of the work had an appendix 150 Years of Buntpapierfabrik AG Aschaffenburg , while a book trade edition of the work had a directory of brocade papers instead of this company history , which is still an indispensable reference for collectors and second-hand dealers.

At the same time, he produced several works that dealt with the Dessauer family and Alois Dessauer's watermarks . He also took over the art-historical processing of the colored paper collection from Guido Dessauer, which was then sold to the Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague , where it represents an important part of the paper history collections.

After creating the colored paper plant, Guido Dessauer made him head of the paper history research center in Mainz as a permanent freelancer in his role as chairman of the Zellcheming technical committee for paper history and watermarking . Now watermarking issues also moved more into the focus of his attention. From Toni Schulte , his predecessor in this office, he also took on the task of paying tribute to well-deserved paper historians such as Adolf Benedello and Emile Joseph Labarre , or of working on important personalities for the history of papermaking for the New German Biography : Leo Gottstein , the founder of the Feldmühle -Corporation , Carl Hofmann, the founder of the paper newspaper, Moritz Friedrich Illig or Ernst Kirchner . Finally, he helped to relocate the paper history research center from Mainz to the Deutsches Museum in Munich , where he had lived in Schwabing after the Second World War.

In 1975 he was awarded the Ring of Honor on Paper History, in particular in recognition of his work for the Research Center on Paper History from 1963 to 1973, whose reference library he had expanded into an important documentation center during this time.

Publications (selection)

• Colored paper. Origin, history, techniques, relationships with art. With the collaboration of Olga Hirsch. Callwey, Munich 1961; 2nd edition 1977.
• About the profession of colored paper and the colored paper trade . In: Der Papiermacher , Volume 13, 1963, Issue 9, pp. 136-139.
• Alphabetical index of occupations and statuses from the late Middle Ages to modern times. [Self-published], Munich, Ainmillerstr. 6, 1933; Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1966 or 1998. ISBN 978-3-487-05913-6 .
• The beginnings of wood engraving in Germany. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch , 1967, pp. 228-231.
• The colored papers. In: wallpapers. Volume 1. Ed. By Heinrich Olligs. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1970, pp. 145-195.
• The riddle of Johannes Gutenberg's coat of arms. In: Gutenberg yearbook 1971, pp. 31–35.

literature

• Guido Dessauer : Albert Haemmerle April 27, 1899 - January 27, 1976 Munich . In: The Munich Free Society "The Mappe". 1926-1990. Edited by Lotte Roth-Wölfle. Robert Wölfle, Munich 1990, pp. 75-76.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albert Haemmerle: How the book colored paper came about. In: Imprimatur , NF 3, 1961/62, p. 270.
2. ↑ Guido Dessauer: Albert Haemmerle: April 27, 1899 - January 27, 1976, Munich . In: The Munich Free Society "The Mappe". 1926-1990. Edited by Lotte Roth-Wölfle. Robert Wölfle, Munich 1990, p. 75.
3. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The Kilian family of artists from Augsburg . Augsburger Buch- u. Kunstantiquariat, Augsburg 1922; ders., The Steudner family. (An artist family from Augsburg). In: Das Schwäbisches Museum , year 1926, issue 4, pp. 97–114; ders .: The hallmarks of the goldsmith Daniel Zech in Augsburg. In: Das Schwäbisches Museum , year 1926, issue 4, pp. 117–122; ders .: Kilian, Augsburg publisher and engraver family . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 288-305 . ; ders., Klauber, family of engravers and publishers from Augsburg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 411-414 . ; ders .: Protestant register of the dead on the history of arts and crafts in Augsburg. Printed as a manuscript. Without a place, 1928.
4. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The wedding books of the Augsburger Bürgerstube and Kaufleutestube up to the end of imperial freedom. Private printing. Munich 1936; ders .: First wedding book of the Evangelical Parish St. Anna in Augsburg. 1596-1629. Private print, Munich 1938.
5. ^ The body books of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg 1300–1500. Private print, Munich 1958.
6. ↑ Albert Haemmerle: The Canoniker the high cathedral chapter of Augsburg until the secularization. Private print, Zurich 1935; ders .: St. Ulrichs Brotherhood Augsburg. Membership directory 1466-1521. Private print, Munich 1949;
7. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The Necrologium of the Order of the Minor Brothers to the Barefoot in Augsburg. Private print, Munich 1955; ders .: The Necrologium of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Augsburg. Private print, Munich 1955; ders .: Necrologium and list of members of the Sebastian Brotherhood in Augsburg. 1505-1665. Private print, Munich 1955; ders .: The Necrologium of the Vicariate Brotherhood of St. Mang at Augsburg Cathedral. Private print, Munich 1958.
8. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The lithography in Augsburg. (= Writings of the Maximilian Museum Augsburg No. 1). Augsburg 1927; ders .: The early days of photography in Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg , Volume 3, 1937/38, Issue 3/4, pp. 111-130.
9. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Augsburger colored paper. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg , Volume 3, 1937/38, Issue 3/4, pp. 133–145; ders .: Alphabetical directory of the manufacturers of colored paper, gold and silver paper and Turkish paper in Augsburg as well as the paper makers and paper dealers there. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte on the art and history of Augsburg , Volume 3, 1937/38, Issue 3/4, pp. 145–179.
10. ↑ Albert Haemmerle: The colored paper collection Olga Hirsch. In: Philobiblon. Quarterly magazine for book and graphic collectors , Volume 10, 1966, Issue 2, pp. 104-109.
11. ↑ See Mirjam M. Foot: The Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers. In: British Library Journal , Volume 7, 1981, No. 1, pp. 12-38 ( digitized ).
12. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Stammtafel of the Dessauer family from Aschaffenburg. Printed as a manuscript. A. Haemmerle, Munich 1962.
13. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The watermarks of Alois Dessauer, 1763-1850. In: Paper History , Volume 16, 1966, Issue 3/4, pp. 2-4.
14. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The colored paper collection Guido Dessauer, Aschaffenburg . [Antiquariat Hartung & Karl, Munich 1976].
15. ^ Henk Voorn: colored paper collection Dr. Guido Dessauer. In: IPH-Information , NF 11, 1977, No. 3/4, p. 105.
16. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The research center for paper history. A report on tasks and goals. In: Das Papier , Volume 22, 1968, Issue 7, pp. 457–459.
17. ^ Albert Haemmerle: The xerography in the watermark archive. In: Papiergeschichte , Volume 17, 1967, Issue 1/2, pp. 15–22.
18. ↑ Albert Haemmerle: Adolf Benedello. † November 9, 1964. In: Papiergeschichte , Volume 14, 1964, Issue 3/4, pp. 56–57.
19. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Émile Joseph Labarre †. June 10, 1965. In: Das Papier , year 19, 1965, issue 8, p. 484.
20. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Gottstein, Leo. In: New German Biography. Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, p. 689.
21. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Hofmann, Carl. In: New German biography. Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, p. 444.
22. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Illig, Moritz Friedrich. In: New German biography. Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1974, p. 138.
23. ^ Albert Haemmerle: Kirchner, Ernst. In: New German biography. Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, pp. 657-658.
24. ^ Albert Haemmerle winner of the 11th Ring of Honor on Paper History. In: IPH Information , NF, Volume 9, No. 3, p. 43.