Arnz & Comp.
The company Arnz & Comp. , also Arnz & Co. or Arnz & Cie. , Was one in publishing working Compagnie , which the brothers Heinrich (1785-1854) and Josef Arnz (1792-1841) and the music dealer Johann Christian Winckelmann (1766-1845) at the beginning of the 19th century in Dusseldorf ( Kingdom of Prussia had founded) . In association with the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Pictures , the production of the Düsseldorf School of Copper Engravings under Joseph von Keller and the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , the company had a major influence on the international distribution of the printmaking work of the Düsseldorf School of Painting .
history
The company founded in 1815/1816 under the name Arnz & Winckelmann , which initially made a name for itself through business stationery, began publishing maps , atlases and scientific works in 1817 . In 1820 the partnership firmierten in the address book of Düsseldorf as Arnz & Comp., Lithographic institution . In a time of “lust for images”, they relied on new printing techniques that made higher print runs possible than the gravure printing processes that had been common up until then . It is attributed to the personal interest of Winckelmann, one of the protagonists of the “ Bergisches Deutsches Theater ” since 1805 , that the company Arnz & Comp. accompanied the theater life of Düsseldorf by publishing theater picture sheets and other illustrations. In 1825 Arnz & Comp. a modern printing company in the buildings of the former Cölestinerinnenkloster and later Palais Spinrath at Ratinger Strasse 15 (formerly 179). The company employed around 100 workers. In 1828 Winckelmann left the partnership in order to found the Winckelmann & Sons company in Berlin , which specialized in picture sheets and children's books and continued to exist as a publishing bookstore until 1929. With Winckelmann, the draftsman and illustrator Theodor Hosemann also left the company for Berlin.
Heinrich Arnz was one of the early supporters of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . In the years 1828 to 1847, the "Mercantile lithography" as well as anonymous city and landscape views were the focus of the program. In addition, the company Arnz & Comp. a reputation for publishing products in the fields of geography , botany and medicine . In the years 1833 to 1857 the number of printing presses used rose from five to 22, the number of employees from 38 to 89. A branch in Leiden , the Netherlands, under the management of Heinrich Arnz's son August (1813–1846) took over a large part from 1840 onwards of natural history publications. These include publications by the botanist Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , who had a close friendship with the Arnz family and in 1826 became the godfather of Heinrich Arnz's second youngest son Friedrich.
In 1841 the co-partner Josef Arnz died. The remaining partner Heinrich Arnz stood by his sons Carl (1821– after 1860) and Otto (1823– after 1860) until his death . The daughter Julie (1827-1896) had married the painter Oswald Achenbach in 1851 , who had his studio in the Palais Spinrath. Two years after his death, in 1856, they converted the company into a limited partnership . In this the factory owner Friedrich Bünger, the banker Louis Endris and Gustav Köppelmann were other shareholders.
A connection between the company and the fine arts in Düsseldorf was first visible in 1838 with the pictures and marginal drawings of German poetry ; the work published by the Düsseldorf publisher Buddeus had Arnz & Comp. supplied with lithographs by Johann Baptist Sonderland . When the satirical magazine Düsseldorfer Mondhefte began operating in 1847 under the direction of Lorenz Clasen , Arnz & Comp. A new target group with genre-like scenes and caricatures by Andreas and Oswald Achenbach , Wilhelm Camphausen , Johann Peter Hasenclever , Theodor Hildebrandt , Carl Wilhelm Hübner , Carl Friedrich Lessing , Henry Ritter , Caspar Scheuren , Adolph Schroedter , Ferdinand Schröder and Adolph Tidemand as well as humorous comments and buyers in the critical, education and art-oriented bourgeoisie , to whom they from then on supplied with further products, from about 1851 with Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter's Düsseldorf artist albums , which proved to be so successful with reproductions of paintings from the Düsseldorf School of Painting that Foreign-language albums were also worthwhile, such as Mary Botham Howitt's The Dusseldorf artists' album (London / Essen 1854) and pictures from Swedish folk life [...] based on original paintings by Swedish artists (1855, in Swedish, German and English).
A counterfeit , which became known shortly before Christmas 1858, and the ensuing bankruptcy of the company, which led to the hasty flight of the managing brothers Carl and Otto Arnz, initially left only a few external traces. The Düsseldorf monthly books continued until 1861, the artist albums until 1864. The illustrator Sonderland, to whom the painter Oswald Achenbach - the brother-in-law of the fugitive Arnz brothers - was assigned, continued the business under the supervision of the bankruptcy trustees. In 1859 the Cologne painter and lithographer David Levy Elkan and the bookseller Heinrich Bäumer acquired the company, which they named "Elkan, Bäumer & Comp." And the addition of "vorm. Arnz & Comp. ”. In September 1862 Bäumer resigned; In the summer of 1864 Elkan sold the company to Wilhelm Breidenbach, who used the formula “vorm. Arnz & Comp. ”Also continued.
literature
- Sabine Herder: Arnz & Comp. A lithographic institution between theater and artists . In: Bettina Baumgärtel: The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 280 ff.
- Wolfgang Hütt : The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 174 ff.
- Elsbeth Colmi: Splendor and misery of a lithographic establishment. Arnz & Comp. Düsseldorf 1815-1858 . In: Librarian Additional Hours. Dedicated to Joseph Gießler on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Publications of the State and City Library Düsseldorf, Volume 5, Düsseldorf 1964, pp. 44–67
- Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter : Düsseldorf artist album , Breidenbach (Arnz & Comp.), 1851 to 1866
Web links
- List of works: Verlag Arnz et Comp. in the portal Digitale-sammlungen.de
- Search result Arnz in the portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Sabine Morgen: The Effects of the Düsseldorf School of Painting on America in the 19th Century. Düsseldorf paintings in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3059-1 , p. 876
- ↑ Book printer owner Arnz & Camp., Ratingerstraße 15 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf to the year 1859, p. 81
- ^ P. Schmitz: Commerce and Industry of the City of Düsseldorf . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine . Volume 3, Düsseldorf 1888, p. 491 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ See Düsseldorf artist album . In: Hans-Ulrich Simon (Ed.): Mörike in the mirror of his letters from publishers, editors and editors . Publications of the German Schiller Society, Volume 48, Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7681-9805-7 , p. 164 ff. ( Google Books ).
- ↑ Directory of the collections of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels , Verlag des Börsenverein der deutschen Buchhandels, Leipzig 1897, p. 13 ( digitized version ).