Edgar Schmidt, Dresden-Budapest

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Edgar Schmidt, Dresden-Budapest
legal form
founding 1897
resolution 1907
Seat Dresden , Budapest
management Edgar Schmidt, Karl Köhler, Berhard Fell
Branch Postcard publisher, specialist shop

Edgar Schmidt, Dresden-Budapest , Hungarian : Edgar Schmidt, Drezda-Budapest , was a company for the distribution of book printing articles , in particular postcards and art postcards , which had a company headquarters in Dresden as well as in Austria-Hungary .

Example of a kitsch postcard by Edgar Schmidt, Dresden-Budapest, 1905
Example of a postcard from Hungary, 1898

history

Little research has been done on the company's history. The founder and owner of the company was the businessman Edgar Schmidt, who also made numerous photographs for distribution as postcards. At the latest in January 1897 his company can be traced, which initially had its shop in Dresden's old town on Schloßstraße 28 and after the turn of the century moved to Marschallstraße 12-14. The later shop in Budapest was located at Térez-koerut 5 .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the company was already in the hands of Karl Köhler, who sold it to the English entrepreneur Berhard Fell in London in 1906. That meant the end of the company, which was dissolved the following year. The attempt to re-establish the successor company postcard GmbH in Bad Schandau was unsuccessful.

The picture postcards issued by the publisher mainly show motifs from Dresden and the surrounding area as well as Saxon Switzerland, the Ore Mountains and the seaside resorts on the Baltic Sea . In addition, a large number and series of art and kitsch postcards were published, many of which were designed in the Art Nouveau style.

Around 1906 the publisher was one of the most important distributors of postcards and picture postcards in the German Empire.

Web links

Commons : Edgar Schmidt, Dresden-Budapest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schmidt-Bachem: From paper. A cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry , 2011, p. 369.