Ewald Steinmetz & Co.

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Ewald Steinmetz & Co. in Hanover was an internationally active graphics , illustration and reproduction company with associated printing companies founded in the 19th century .

history

After the wood cutter F. Hille had operated his art workshop in the early days of the German Empire until 1880 in Reuterstraße ▼ , Ewald Steinmetz from Braunschweig took over the company in the same year . In 1884 Steinmetz employed seven assistants and two apprentices. The company Ewald Steinmetz, Xylographie was soon supplying companies at home and abroad. Not only fictional illustrations were in demand; The weekly English trade journal Engineering was one of the regular customers for the technical graphics and drawings that were reproducible through the wood engraving . In 1890, in the same year the company only employed six apprentices, instead of the company premises that had become too cramped, a first company building was built at the former address at Kronenstraße 34 . ▼ ,

When from the beginning of the 1890s "[...] a revolution in the field of illustration began to take place with the invention of the photomechanical reproduction process", the "wood-cutting art workshop " was first a photographic studio , then a " galvanoplastic institution" was attached . At that time, the city's address book also featured artistic achievements. Above all, industrial companies in Sweden and France , soon also increasingly in Germany, were among the regular buyers of graphic products from Steinmetz until business losses began at the beginning of the 20th century. As a result, the company was initially relocated to the Lange Laube ▼ street , and in 1905 no more assistants or apprentices were employed. Ewald Steinmetz died in the middle of World War I , but his widow and daughters continued to run the business until 1918, when it passed into the ownership of Oskar Lüders at the beginning of the Weimar Republic . Despite initially only a few assistants, the Steinmetz company soon became one of the largest and most efficient of its kind in northern Germany .

In 1926 the company was converted into a GmbH . By 1927 E. Steinmetz & Co. GmbH, Graphische Kunstanstalten had a comparatively huge complex of factory buildings built under the company's headquarters at Goethestrasse 9 ▼ . Equipment, machinery and personnel now also supplied products from simple Zinkätzung on the offset printing to sophisticated four-color - autotypes . One of Steinmetz's specialties was the "[...] photolithographic transfer of multicolored originals in the largest formats".

Well-known works (selection)

drawings

  • Illustrations of the company's own business buildings

Photographs

  • Bankhaus A. Spiegelberg , bank building at Landschaftsstrasse 1 acquired by Alexander and Kommerzienrat Georg Spiegelberg in 1895
  • Commercial buildings from William Eichhorn in the riding Wall Street
  • Commercial building and interior views of the coffee roastery and colonial goods wholesaler founded by Carl Capelle in 1788 at Schmiedestrasse 9 , built between 1560 and 1570
  • The office building of the wine wholesaler Franz Mumme in the street Am Markte 13, built in 1755 and acquired from royal property
  • Renaissance house at Osterstrasse 73, acquired by the iron merchant PH Brauns in 1816
  • Entrance hall of the carpenter's office, Lange Laube 7A

literature

  • Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Ewald Steinmetz & Co. GmbH, Graphische Kunstanstalten , in this: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), anniversary publisher Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 138

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Ewald Steinmetz & Co. GmbH, Graphische Kunstanstalten , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 138
  2. ↑ a b N.N. : Ewald Steinmetz & Co. , in: Archive for the history of books , Vol. 24 (1983), p. 129; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Agents, Bader and Copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900. Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 19, 149; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ DBdaF 1927, p. 151
  5. ↑ DBdaF 1927, p. 175
  6. ↑ DBdaF 1927, p. 186
  7. ↑ DBdaF 1927, p. 197
  8. ↑ DBdaF 1927, p. 205
  9. ↑ DBdaF 1927, p. 300f.