August Wehrt (Publisher)

Excerpt from Wehrt's 1844 map of Braunschweig and its immediate vicinity . The north-eastern part of the Okerum flood ditch (center) can be seen. Out of town on Petri Thor street, immediately to the left of it, the von Bülow villa and the Kreuzkloster . In the lower right corner of the Radeklint with Südklint , Bäckerklint and Petri-Kirche .

The printing August Wehrt , also A. Wehrt or Aug. Wehrt was in 1826 by August Wehrt in Braunschweig and existed there until 1968. In it, and in the attached publishing were maps , photos of current events and illustrations created for books. From 1843 the illustrated magazine Gallerie des Schönen und Nutzlichen appeared , and between 1890 and 1910 also postcards in various printing techniques .

history

Multi-image lithograph "Greetings from Bad Liebenstein "

"Greetings from the Döhrner Thurm ".

The company was founded in 1826 by August Wehrt as an "art print" establishment. The company's copperplate engravings from the second quarter of the 19th century can now be found in important collections and archives . From 1890 the publisher produced postcards, often as lithographed cards with the additional imprint "Greetings from ...". Some of the postcards also bear the company's trademark , a standing Braunschweig lion looking to the left between the letters “W” and “B”.

literature

• Luitgard Camerer: Georg August Wehrt. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 642 .
• Luitgard Camerer: Resists, August company. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 242 .
• Gustav Friedrich Schröder: A century of lithography in Braunschweig. August Wistent, art print. Braunschweig 1926.

Web links

Commons : August Wehrt (Verlag)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Resists, August on europeana .eu
• August Wehre in the picture index Photo Marburg
• Virtual Kupferstichkabinett : City views of Braunschweig by August Wehrt in the Pinacotheca Brunsvicensis, Volume VIII, on the Herzog August Library
• Braunschweig University Library : Braunschweig: View of the city with the Oker landscape from the south (in the 19th century), copper engraving
• University of Osnabrück : Defense, Art Institution Braunschweig in the collection of historical picture postcards by S. Giesbrecht

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luitgard Camerer: Defense, August company. In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , p. 242.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 42.8 "  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 31.6"  E