Franz Beckmann (plumbing)

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The names of the coppersmiths Conrad and Franz Beckmann can be found in a fold of the robe near the left foot of the Victoria on the Waterloo Column, designed by the sculptor August Hengst in the early 1830s

Franz Beckmann later E. Beckmann called, the name was a Royal Hanoverian Hof - plumber , bulbs - manufacturers and Lacquering factories , but also the company name of an installation -, sanitary - and lighting retail -Geschäftes.

history

The Beckmann family business goes back to Conrad David Gerhard Beckmann, who was born on December 11, 1780 at the time of the Electorate of Hanover during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . He ran his trade , the manufacture of sheet metal goods , still purely by hand . He maintained his workshop in his own house on Kramerstrasse in Hanover, where his artistically gifted son Franz Beckmann (Franz Friedrich Georg Beckmann) at the age of 20 and his father designed the goddess of victory Victoria, designed by August Hengst , for Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves Waterloo column designed and inaugurated on June 18, 1832 in copper. Shortly before the inauguration of the Waterloo Column, the Victoria was exhibited in the inner courtyard of the house on Kramerstrasse and viewed by the royal court , with “the maker receiving high recognition”. Conrad and Franz Beckmann had made a report about the difficult production of the Victoria's head, which was found more than a century later - in 1955 - during restoration work on the figure.

With the newly acquired business relationships and with the support of the Welfenhaus , Franz Beckmann was able to put the former craft business on a broader basis and found his own company in 1835. He moved the previously small sheet metal factory from Kramerstrasse to Burgstrasse , where he then founded a “ sheet metal , cast goods and paint factory”. In addition to its own products, the company soon also offered English porcelain and Parisian oil lamps - the so-called " moderator lamps" . Beckmann started trading with "lighting devices". In the emerging lighting industry, the products of the royal purveyors to the court and lamp manufacturers entered in the Hanover address book soon stood out clearly. As early as 1836, the writer Georg Harrys recommended a visit to the Beckmann factory for the Christmas exhibition of the year.

During the second trade exhibition in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837, “Franz Beckmann jun. “In addition to its large range of lamps, it also offers a multi-armed alcohol gas lamp in the form of a chandelier . In addition to the “ tea machines ” offered by Beckmann , a portrait relief embossed in brass and a life-size bust also embossed in metal attracted particular attention due to their “most perfect technical and artistic execution” in a review published by the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover . The manufacturer was awarded the bronze medal of the trade association for showing the goods on display.

At the trade exhibition of 1840, “F. Beckmann, court plumber in Hanover "

In 1850 Beckmann was awarded the small gold medal.

After the publisher set up a separate category for lamp manufacturers in Hanover's address books for the first time in 1852, the Beckmann lamp factory was described in the same year as "the largest lamp factory in the kingdom", which at that time was already producing "over 100 types" of lamps.

In addition to the Victoria designed by Beckmann, the large chandelier in the auditorium of the opera house , which opened in 1852, was one of the most famous products from the company's workshop, which has long been associated with the "delivery of the brightest light". The chandelier was lost to the war after a good 90 years.

In 1865, the court manufacturer Franz Beckmann, who had his place of business at Burgstrasse 4 and his place of residence at Meterstrasse 5, was a member and participant in the meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors held in Hanover in September of the same year .

In 1883, the company moved to the family-owned business building in the arched style , the Beckmannhaus , which now operated under the address Georgstraße 29 (today: Georgstraße 48 ). A generation later, six decades later, the Beckmann house was completely destroyed by aerial bombs during the air raids on Hanover in World War II in 1943 - as was the historic chandelier in the opera house. Only an old animated drawing of the business building had survived. That was the end of the history of the family business, which had been focused on arts and crafts.

Erich Beckmann

Erich Beckmann (born May 25, 1907) was a descendant of the family and was one of the most important art and antique dealers in Germany. While still under the British military government , he began expanding a shop on foreign property on Georgstrasse, in which he opened a "shop for fine antiques and old jewelry" in August 1946. In the post-war period Beckmann achieved great importance and recognition in the German and international art trade. In 1954, he was able to start rebuilding on the family-owned property in Georgstrasse. In its own office building, the company opened spacious rooms extending over two floors with an exhibition area of ​​more than 500 square meters. In the mid-1980s, the Beckmannhaus - one and a half centuries after the parent company opened - mainly offered paintings by important masters from the 17th to 19th centuries, but also early Russian and Greek icons, bronzes and sculptures from the 15th to 18th centuries, Renaissance - as well as baroque furniture, plus East Asian items, antique arts and crafts in silver, bronze or pewter, faience, porcelain and glass as well as selected antique jewelry.

From 1988 the antiques gallery Beckmann was run by Beckmann's niece, the art historian Annemarie Pape. Three decades later, however, in 2008 the company was closed due to the decline in sales and the remaining holdings were auctioned at Schloss Ahlden .

See also

literature

  • Paul Siedentopf (main editor): E. Beckmann, Georgstraße 29 , in the latter: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, P. 255
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Beckmann - Antiquitäten-Galerei B. , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 53

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Heinrich Beyer: "It is hereby made known ..." A study of the Hanoverian advertising system 1750-1850 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 16 (1962), pp. 1-79, va P. 49, 58; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Paul Siedentopf (main editor): E. Beckmann, Georgstraße 29 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), anniversary -Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 255
  3. ↑ a b c d Ursula Döpper , M. von der Au (ed.), Franz B. Döpper (text): Erich Beckmann , in this: Hanover and his old companies , 2nd, improved edition, ed. from the Association of German Economic Historians eV, Pro Historica publishing house, Society for German Economic History mbH, Au in der Hallertau [1985], ISBN 3-89146-00-8-2 , p. 155
  4. ^ Helmut Knocke : Waterloo Column , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 659
  5. ^ Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ...), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 300; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Karl Karmarsch , Friedrich von Reden (ed.): Report from the trade associations on the second general exhibition of domestic industrial products organized by the trade associations for the Kingdom of Hanover in August and September 1837 ... , in: Mittheilungen of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover , born 1838–1839, Hanover: in commission of the Hahn'schen Hof bookstore, 1839, columns 103–104; Digitized via Google books
  7. ↑ a b List of items displayed at the exhibition of domestic industrial products organized by the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover , Volume 3: First addendum to the list of the third trade exhibition in Hanover , Hanover: August 1840, p. 91; Digitized via Google books
  8. ^ A b c Ludwig Hoerner : Keyword Beckmann in ders .: Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 238, 272, 275, 276, 318, 343, 382
  9. ^ Heinrich Albert Oppermann : On the history of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1832 to 1860 , Volume 2: 1848 - 1860 , Leipzig: Otto Wiegand, 1862, p. 407; Digitized via Google books
  10. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Opernplatz 1 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 175ff .; here: p. 176
  11. ↑ Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for the year 1865, part 1: Address and housing gazette , section 4: Alphabetical list of residents , p. 139; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  12. ^ Carl Krause , Karl Karmarsch , Wilhelm Krause , Karl Johann Kraut (eds.): Directory of the members and participants of the XL. Meeting of German natural scientists and doctors in Hanover, in 1865 , in this: Official report on the fortieth meeting of German natural scientists and doctors in Hanover in September 1865 , Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1866, p. 16ff .; Digitized via Google books
  13. ^ Personal details / Erich Beckmann on his 80th birthday , in: Les beaux-arts du monde (= world art. The art magazine of ZEIT ), Volume 57, Munich: Verlag Kunst und Technik, 1987, p. 1558; limited preview in Google Book search
  14. ^ A b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Beckmann - Antiquitäten-Galerie B. , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 53; limited preview in Google Book search
  15. ^ Die Weltkunst , Volume 71, Issues 4–6, 1971, p. 581; limited preview in Google Book search