Folkwang publishing house
The Folkwang-Verlag GmbH (also Folkwang Verlag ) was a publishing house that was founded in 1919 by the Hagen art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874-1921). It was founded as part of his overall Folkwang concept , which first gave rise to the Folkwang Museum in 1902 and later the Hohenhagen artists' colony and the Hohenhof art center .
After occasional individual publications under the Folkwang label had appeared since the turn of the century , the publishing house emerged from the Folkwang Museum publishing house, which is affiliated to the museum , and produced considerable works on the fine arts, architecture, dance, photography, but also on non-European culture out (e.g. Insel Bali , 1922, by Gregor Krause and Karl With ). Including large, splendid illustrated books on ethnographic art, as well as numerous publications by Bruno Taut and other architects. Some novels have also been published. After Osthaus' death in 1921, at his suggestion, the Folkwang School was founded by Kurt Jooss and Rudolf von Laban , which later moved to Dortmund and Essen . The museum was also operated later in Essen under the same name, in Hagen a museum founded in 1930 was then renamed Osthaus Museum Hagen . The publishing house continued to exist for several years.
In 1919 Osthaus appointed Ernst Fuhrmann as publishing director. In 1922 Albert Renger-Patzsch took over the management of the Folkwang publishing house's picture archive. This made the publishing house a center for photography of the New Objectivity . The publisher was now also operating in Darmstadt and was transferred to the Auriga-Verlag in 1923 (Auriga, Latin for driver ).
The editions of the publishing house were not only characterized by outstanding art subjects, but also by their special bibliophile and typographical features. In addition to monographs, he published series and magazines. The publisher already had an international response in the early 1920s. Even today, the exquisite editions of the Folkwang Verlag are in great demand.
Since the 1990s, the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum has been publishing its writings again in its own Folkwang publishing house, called Neuer Folkwang Verlag in the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen .
The archive and the historical estate of the former publisher are scattered today. Part of the collection is in the Folkwang archive in Berlin.
literature
- Rainer Stamm: The Folkwang-Verlag. On the way to an imaginary museum. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3598249012
- Lutz years: The Folkwang publishing house. World museum in book form. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. 168, 80. Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISSN 0940-0044 , pp. 551-555.
- Rainer Stamm: The Folkwang Verlag and its successors. Publishing history, bibliography of all published publications. In: Book trade history. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISSN 0170-5105 , pp. B81 – B89, B89 – B97.
- Franz Jung (Ed.): Ernst Fuhrmann, Basic Forms of Life. Biological-philosophical writings. Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt. Vol. 28. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1962. (contains the Ernst Fuhrmann bibliography, status 1962).
- Ute Kemmerling: The Folkwang-Verlag by Karl Ernst Osthaus as a window to the world . In: Fabian Fechner u. a. (Ed.): Colonial pasts of the city of Hagen , Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063343-0 , pp. 40-44.
- Ute Kemmerling: From the picture archive to the "Orient Archive" of the Folkwang publishing house . In: Fabian Fechner u. a. (Ed.): Colonial pasts of the city of Hagen , Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063343-0 , pp. 45–47.