Felix Huebel

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Felix Huebel

Felix Hübel (born November 7, 1874 in Leipzig , † June 20, 1922 in Baden-Baden ) was a German entrepreneur , publisher , writer, translator and collector .

Life

The entrepreneur

Felix Hübel was the son of the Leipzig bookbinder Carl Friedrich Hübel, who with his business partner Gustav Herrmann Denck founded the large bookbindery Hübel und Denck in Leipzig on April 3, 1875 , one of the oldest and most important companies of its kind. After an apprenticeship in his father's company, Felix Hübel continued his training in England , where he was introduced to the art of hand binding by Thomas Cobden-Sanderson and Douglas Cockerell .

After his return, he joined his father's company as a junior manager, where he set up a handbinding department that was to become a leader in artistic bookbinding and worked with well-known graphic artists such as Marcus Behmer , Heinrich Pauser , Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Paul Renner . Hübel also worked as a translator of Cockerell's writings, which had been part of the standard work in bookbinding training for decades under the title The Book Cover and the Care of the Book and were last published again in 1998. At the same time he was editor of the monthly sheets for book covers and handbinding .

In 1914 he received the state prize on the occasion of the first international exhibition for book trade and graphics in Leipzig. After the sudden death of his father in 1916, he became the sole owner of the company. Felix Hübel was a Bavarian and Romanian purveyor to the court and held the title of Hofrat .

Since April 11, 1901 Felix Hübel was with Daisy Heathfield, daughter of Henry Heathfield and his wife Maud, geb. Sayer, married.

The writer

In addition to his entrepreneurial and book artistic activities, Hübel made a name for himself above all as an author of poems, novels , novellas and plays, which he published, partly bibliophile , in his own publishing house. He worked with artists such as Hans Domizlaff , Georg Alexander Mathéy and Bruno Héroux . Hübels drama La Paloma experienced on January 12, 1907 Leipzig City Theater its premiere and was very well received by the audience. The translation of the song For you alone, composed by Henry E. Geehl, comes from Hübel . , with which Richard Tauber celebrated successes. He also translated works by the English writer Walter Pater .

The collector

Felix Hübel owned an extensive collection of 15,000 sheets of colored paper , which he himself cataloged and kept in specially developed boxes. These include the earliest brocade and bronze varnish papers from the late 17th century to the most modern, industrially manufactured colored papers and unique artistic items . In 1914 he donated this collection to the Deutsches Museum in Munich , which was able to complete the scientific processing as part of the project to develop the paper history holdings and collections in 2012. He also collected books, carpets, pictures and graphics.

Felix Hübel died of a stroke during a vacation trip to Baden-Baden.

Memberships

Works

  • Irmelin and love. Roman, Munich, G. Müller 1911.
  • New longing. Poems. Leipzig undated
  • The wolves, with 2 etchings by Bruno Heroux, printed for the Leonids in November 1920 - W. Drugulin Leipzig

Web links

literature

  • Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig. The historical travel guide , Berlin 2011, p. 61, ISBN 978-3-86153-634-5 .
  • One hundred years of Th. Knaur-Hübel & Denck. Leipzig, Aug. 14, 1846-1946 , Leipzig 1946.
  • Anniversary publication Hübel & Denck. 1875-1925 , Leipzig 1925.
  • Festschrift to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Hübel & Denck company in Leipzig. 1875-1900 , Leipzig 1900.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The marriage had three children:
    • Lilian * March 21, 1904
    • Henry * October 28, 1907 and
    • Harald * November 13, 1908. See our contemporaries. Who is it , VII edition, Leipzig 1914.
  2. ↑ A recording of the song on YouTube
  3. ↑ See: Julia Rinck: The Hübel colored paper collection in the archive of the Deutsches Museum. In: Einband-Forschung , 2012, No. 31, pp. 71–76.
personal data
SURNAME Hübel, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, publisher, writer, translator and collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1922
Place of death Baden-Baden