Printer Joh. Walch
The Joh. Walch printing company in Augsburg is a printing company founded in the 1750s and a publishing house that emerged as an important map publisher in the 18th and 19th centuries . The company, which has been run as a family business for more than quarter of a millennium , was divided into a printing company and a specialist publisher at the end of the 20th century.
history
The pedigree of from Kempten (Allgäu) originating Protestant family can be until at least the year 1669 traced back to the birth of John Walch (1669-1748), Nadler and councilor in Kempten and father of businessman and amateur painter and -Kupferstechers Sebastian Walch ( 1721-1748). The family business was named after the miniature painter and engraver Johann Walch (1757–1788), who, together with his father-in-law Johann Martin Will (1727–1806), the actual founder of the Walch company, was created by the engraver Gustav Conrad Lotter (1746–1776) in In the year 1789 he had bought the heir, the material of the map publishers founded by the publishers and engravers Matthäus Seutter and Tobias Conrad Lotter , almost 25,000 individual map sheets and 208 copper plates. So Will and Walch created the prerequisites for the tradition of modern map printing to be continued in Augsburg until around 1850. But they also published devotional pictures after these had previously been traded for centuries by the Catholic families Frehling , Gleich , Schön and Hutter . The local population, sometimes up to the entrance of the shop on Oberen Graben , worked for Walch: some of the small round pictures he designed were "illuminated" by women working from home .
The business was continued by Johann Sebastian Walch (1787–1840), who expanded the inherited map publisher ("Joh. Walch'sche Landkarten Handlung") to include a stone and letterpress printing company. Under his eldest son Adolf Walch (* August 21, 1815, † July 12, 1886), the production of punched point images was continued, but in particular the production of breath images .
After Adolf Walch the Younger (* July 14, 1854, † May 5, 1932) married Margaretha Reichenbach in 1887 , a daughter of Carl August Reichenbach , printer and co-founder of the Augsburg-Nuremberg machine factory (MAN), the Joh The previous Rossmarkt location moved to the Reichenbach estate at Zeuggasse 1 . On the other hand, the art publishing house, headed by Adolf's sister Regine at the time , stayed at the Oberen Graben .
From 1928 Karl, the son of Adolf's youngest brother Carl, ran the print shop. Carl Walch took over the company in 1930 and founded the "Schwabenland-Verlag", which was discontinued in 1936 for political reasons. Between 1934 and 1941/42 Walch printed the cultural-political Nazi magazine “Schwabenland”.
In 1959, the printing company Joh acquired. Walch the publishers advertising services . In 1963 Karl Walch's third son, Karl-Veit Walch, joined the company and took over management in 1965. He expands the production of goods catalogs for office supplies. In 1968 his brother Heinz Walch also joined the management. In 1973 they acquired Perlach-Verlag , founded in 1951, which also published the Augsburger Stadtlexikon in 1985 , the rights of which were later acquired by Wißner-Verlag .
After the large-scale production of the print shop had been relocated to Haunstetten in 1974 , the company was divided among the family in 1998 into a printing company on the one hand and the specialist publisher Walch with Perlach-Verlag on the other. The printer Joh. Walch is co-editor of the journal Tatendrang. Magazine from entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs .
literature
- Adolf Spamer : The small devotional picture from XIV. To XX. Century . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1930, pp. 257f.
- Albert Haemmerle : The Walch family of painters from Kempten - Augsburg. In: Viertel-Jahreshefte zur Kunst und Geschichte Augsburgs 2, 1936/37, pp. 181–201.
- Chronicle of the Walch families 1586–1945. Dedicated to Karl Walch on the occasion of his 80th birthday . Walch, Augsburg 1984.
- Helmut Gier, Johannes Janota (ed.): Augsburg book printing and publishing. From the beginning to the present (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03624-9 , pp. 421f., 1007-1009, 1293, 1303.
- Hans-Jörg Künast (Red.): Joh. Walch GmbH & Co. , in: Augsburger Stadtlexikon . 2nd edition, Perlach-Verlag, Augsburg 1998 (also online ).
- Michael Ritter: The map publisher Johannes Walch in Augsburg. In: Cartographica Helvetica 26, 2002, pp. 23-29 ( digitized version ).
- 250 years of the Joh. Walch printing company in Augsburg, which is over 2000 years old (1755–2005). Walch, Augsburg 2005.
Web links
- Over a quarter of a millennium in the graphic arts industry , a brief summary of the company's history on walchdruck.de
- Druckerei Joh. Walch on the Augsburgwiki page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Ritter: Augsburg map production in the 18th century . In: John Roger Paas (Ed.): Augsburg, the picture factory of Europe. Essays on Augsburg prints of the early modern period (= Swabian historical sources and research , vol. 21). Wißner, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-89639-280-8 , pp. 153-162; here p. 158ff. ( Google Books ).
- ↑ Latest chart of the kingdoms of Bavaria and Würtemberg, the Grand Duchy of Baden together with the Principality of Hohenzollern. Designed from the best and most trusted resources. - (Approx. 1: 620000) Augsburg, Ioh. Walch. 1833. , Explanatory text from the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online ( Memento from January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A b Adolf Spamer: The small devotional picture from XIV. To XX. Century . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1930, p. 258.
- ↑ a b c Hans-Jörg Künast (Red.): Joh. Walch GmbH & Co. , in: Augsburger Stadtlexikon . 2nd edition, Augsburg 1998 (also online ).
- ↑ See the imprint on the tatendrang.info page , accessed on January 29, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 10.1 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 36.2 ″ E