Anton Hubert Konrad

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Anton Hubert Konrad , also Anton H. Konrad (born May 31, 1937 in Illertissen ), is a German publisher and founder of the Anton H. Konrad publishing house in Weißenhorn .

Live and act

Anton Konrad attended the college of the school brothers in his hometown Illertissen and passed his Abitur there in 1956 . He then completed an apprenticeship at the W. Kohlhammer publishing house in Stuttgart . After a stay of several months as a trainee at the publisher Allen & Unwin in London , he began studying the history of art , archeology and auxiliary sciences of history in Munich and Würzburg . In 1961, Konrad founded the Anton H. Konrad publishing house named after him in Neu-Ulm . In 1964 he moved the seat of the company after Weißhorn in Neu-Ulm , where he also has its own bookstore operates.

The publishing program includes works on local and local history , books on monasteries and churches, and monographs on Baroque and Rococo artists . Konrad wrote the texts for numerous art and church guides and booklets of the series "Swabian Art Monuments" himself. For his catalogs on historical cartography he worked with the Bavarian State Library in Munich and the State Library in Berlin . The publisher counts among his important publications a volume of almost 700 pages compiled by the scientist Angelika Marsch with historical cityscapes from all over Europe by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690–1776) and a large-format facsimile edition of the travel picture book of Count Palatine Ottheinrich , who in the years 1536/1537 had a traveling artist draw all the cities on his route from Neuburg an der Donau to Krakow and Berlin.

As part of the press coverage on the occasion of his 80th birthday in May 2017, Konrad announced that he was currently working on his doctoral thesis , which remained unfinished 50 years ago . This is an extensive monograph on the rococo painter Franz Martin Kuen , who comes from Weißenhorn and is to be completed by the celebrations for the artist's 300th birthday at the end of 2019.

Voluntary work

In addition to his job, Konrad was active from 1964 to 1988 as chairman of the home and museum association in his adopted home town of Weißenhorn. Since 1970 he has also been working as a volunteer home nurse in the Neu-Ulm district . Konrad has received several awards for his diverse and long-term commitment.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • 1965 The Reichsabtei Elchingen: Your image in the course of change d. Centuries
  • 1966 Franz Reissenauer, Josef Weizenegger, Anton H. Konrad: The district of Günzburg: A portrait of its history and Art with co-workers of Paul Auer [and a. Ed. On behalf of the district of Günzburg]
  • 1972 Joseph Götsch: a Bavarian Rococo sculptor from Tyrol . ISBN 3-87437-081-X .
  • 1980 Kellmünz: a market town in Illertal; 650 years of Markt 1330-1980 . ISBN 3-87437-169-7 .
  • 1991 Arthur Haseloff a. a .: Hohenstaufic memories in Apulia: Memorie Sueve in Puglia (writings on Hohenstaufen history and art) , ISBN 3-87437-314-2 .
  • 2000 Angelika Marsch (Ed.): The travel pictures Pfalzgraf Ottheinrichs from the years 1536/37. From his ride from Neuburg on the Danube via Prague to Krakow and back via Breslau, Berlin, Wittenberg and Leipzig to Neuburg . 2 volumes, ISBN 3-87437-440-8 .
  • 2010 Angelika Marsch: Friedrich Bernhard Werner 1690-1776. Corpus of his European cityscapes, illustrated travel manuscripts and the topographies of Silesia and Bohemia-Moravia , ISBN 978-3-87437-534-4 .
  • 2011 Erbach Castle . ISBN 978-3-87437-053-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A publisher with a history. In: openpr.de. May 29, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .