Georg Alpers junior

Georg Alpers jun. (* before 1888; † after 1914) was a German ( court ) photographer , printer and publisher of his own postcards in the 19th and 20th centuries in Hanover .

Life

1907: " Fatherland Museum of the City of Hanover . Collection of guild antiquities. ”
Postcard 1 , Series B by Alpers jun.

Postcard of a Hanomag locomotive ; Edition of 1,000 copies, printed in French in December 1909

Georg Alpers jun. ran an "art institute for photography, collotype , photolithography , autotype , zinc etching " and offered its "art publishing house" for various photographic recordings.

In 1888 Georg Alpers jun. Co-founder of the Hanover Photography Association. In 1889 he wrote in the Deutsche Photographen-Zeitung : “When we decided a year ago to found a photographic association here [in Hanover], we did not hide the difficulties of this venture, all the more because several such attempts had been made in earlier years unsuccessful, so that the greatest doubts prevailed whether it would come about correctly. "

In 1897 the " owners : Alpers & Meissner" ran their "special atelier [...]" in what was then Heinrichstrasse 63 . From the same year Alpers also made blueprints .

Georg Alpers junior acquired the title purveyor to the court around 1914 .

Works

Skull by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; After the opening in 1906
, Pastor August Kranold gave this photograph by Alpers junior to the grave of Ernst August von Hannover , the 3rd Duke of Cumberland

Ring wall of the Marienburg near Nordstemmen
taken by A. Umlauff , 1895, photolithography by Alpers

Among a large number of works by Georg Alpers jun. should be emphasized:

• in particular photo postcards from Hanover; such as
• Lolomotiv trading cards (images of locomotives , "built by the Hannoversche Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft , formerly Georg Egestorff , Hannover-Linden "; provided with a number of technical details of the tractors as well as the edition, the year of manufacture and the number of the card).
• 2 photographs (around 1906) of the skull of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (photographs with the addition of ink: "The skull of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Gift of Pastor Kranold from the Neustädter Kirche in Hanover in August 1906").
• In 1902, based on a photograph by Alpers, an engraving of the new building for the Hannoversche Bank in Georgstrasse was published in the »Illustrirten Zeitung« .
• After 1906, Alpers and the photographer Carl Hermann Bartels created a “folder with photographs from the Herrenhausen Gardens (Victoria Regia House and Water Art)”, which is part of the Herrenhausen Royal Garden Library collection - graphics, plans and other materials are now in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library find.
• Around 1910 a Leporello booklet with the title Pictures from Hanover was published .

Awards

According to the letterhead from Alpers jun. from 1903 he received the following awards:

• 1889 in Weimar ;
• 1890 in Eisenach , Bremen and Groningen , as well as first prize in a writing competition on the subject of "How do we educate our apprentices " (His "thoughts were published in newspapers read by photographers all over the world [... and] are still worth reading today.");
• 1891 in Dresden ;
• 1892 in Wiesbaden ;
• 1893 in Hildesheim ;
• 1894 in Frankfurt ;
• 1895 in Görlitz ;
• 1896 in Trier ;
• 1897 in Hanover, Frankfurt and Freiburg ;
• 1898 in Magdeburg ;
• 1899 in Baden-Baden ;
• 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris , as well
• 1901 in Hanover with the gold medal .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} graph. Art Institute Georg Alpers jun. Purveyor to the Europeana.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hannover and Hildesheim ... , p. 22.
3. ↑ ^{a b} ebay : Strandhotel Steinhude near Hannover-Wunstorf - Diele (around 1915)
4. ^ "Deutsche Photographen-Zeitung", Weimar 1889, p. 127.
5. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Lichtpausanstalten . In: other agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 289.
6. ^ Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm: Skull of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on lotissimo.de.
7. ^ Hannoversche Neubauten: Die Hannoversche Bank , in: "Illustrirte Zeitung / weekly news about all major events of the time, conditions and personalities of the present", 1902 January – April, p. 175; digitized for Pictura Paedagogica Online .
8. ↑ folder with photographs ... (see web links).
9. ↑ Pictures from Hanover .
10. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers ... , p. 20.
11. ^ "Deutsche Photographen-Zeitung", Weimar 1890, pp. 37–39 and 49–51.

literature

• Ludwig Hoerner : Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography . Published by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds, produced by the Bad Pyrmont vocational training center for typesetting, reproduction photography, printing form production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of the retraining in 1989

Web links

Commons : Georg Alpers junior  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Folder with photographs from the Herrenhausen Gardens (Victoria-Regia-Haus and Wasserkunst) on Kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de
• europeana : Postcards from Alpers of Hanomag's locomotives