Argenta (photo paper mill)

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Argenta, photographic paper factory
legal form oHG , later GmbH
founding 1918
resolution 1992
Reason for dissolution liquidation
Seat Munich - Pasing , Germany
management Ludwig Muller ;
later Richard Müller, Ludwig Müller jun. and Robert Müller
Number of employees 180
Branch Photo paper manufacturer

Argenta was a German photo paper factory based in Munich - Pasing and existed until its liquidation in 1992.

history

Ludwig Müller was a businessman and musician. He turned to photography at the beginning of the 20th century. During the First World War he ran an extensive mail order and export business for photographic articles. In 1918 he opened his shop in Pasing. In 1938, Pasing was incorporated into Munich under Adolf Hitler . The “photographic paper factory” with its headquarters at Willibaldstrasse 22 was completely destroyed by air raids in World War II, but continued to exist as an oHG , most recently as a GmbH with its last headquarters in the former branch at Planegger Strasse 121 as the new headquarters. Müller's sons Richard and Ludwig Müller junior, later also son Robert Müller, joined the father's company and later continued it as managing director .

Even after the war, Argenta continued to operate internationally. In the 1950s, the Photo Industry Association complained that Argenta had lowered the prices of certain specialty papers below the rates recommended by the association. In 1964 the company had 180 employees. The manufacturer's specialties were photo linen and paper colored with copper, silver and gold for black and white photography . The “heavy” barite papers with unhardened emulsion, which were suitable for bromine oil printing, were a specialty . In the 1950s / 1960s, an emulsion-coated canvas was developed that was launched in 1962. This photo canvas was intended for stage decorations, advertising purposes and graphic reproductions.

Production was stopped in 1991 and the company was dissolved the following year.

literature

  • Argenta Munich. Forty years. 1918/1958. Argenta factory of photographic paper Ludwig Müller, Verlag F. Bruckmann , Munich 1958.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ARGENTA Factory for Photographic Papers GmbH. HRB 92446 (Munich District Court)
  2. ↑ a b c Argenta, Fabr. Photographic papers, Ludwig Müller. In: Company handbook chemical industry. Econ Verlag , 1964, p. 182. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ In one sentence. In: 50 Years of Photo Press , p. 61.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Müller 60 years. In: The photographer's studio , volumes 45–46 (1938–1939), p. 332.
  5. ^ Photo echo: Ludwig Müller 75 years. In: Foto Prisma Volume 5, Knapp., 1954, p. 4.
  6. ↑ ARGENTA Factory for Photographic Papers GmbH. HRB 92446 (Munich District Court)
  7. ^ Argenta Ludwig Müller. In: Kompass Germany. Register of selected German industry and commerce , Volume 2, Kompass Deutschland, 1991, p. 900.
  8. ↑ Argenta. In: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office , Volume 804 (1964), p. 19.
  9. ^ Photo cartel. Who dances out of line. In: Der Spiegel 29/1954, July 14, 1954, pp. 9-10.
  10. ^ Arie Wallert, Erma Hermens, Marja Peek: Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice. Preprints of a Symposium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, June 26-29, 1995. Ed. from the Research Scientist Department of Art History Erma Hermens, Getty Publications, 1995 [new edition], p. 193. ISBN 978-0-892-36322-3 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 10.2 ″  E