Gustav Georg Lange

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Gustav Georg Lange (born January 6, 1812 in Darmstadt ; died probably there in 1873) was a German bookseller , printer, publisher and draftsman. He ran a publishing house specializing in illustrated topographies with a print shop in Darmstadt.

Life

Gustav Georg Lange was the son of the military officer Christian Friedrich Lange (1759-1840), who was General Staff Auditor in Darmstadt, and Karoline Friederike Stockmar (1776-1838). He attended high school in Darmstadt and trained as a bookseller in Frankfurt am Main . In 1831 or 1832 he founded an art and bookshop in Darmstadt. At the end of 1835, he also opened a copper and steel printing plant at Darmstadt Rheinstrasse 47. Lange's business expanded quickly and specialized in topographical publications, which he produced in relatively large editions on 16 presses using the steel engraving method. In 1842 an own printing house was opened.

The further development of the publisher and the bookstore are unclear; in the 1850s and 1870s parts are said to have been taken over by other entrepreneurs.

There is no agreement on Lange's date of death: some biographical reference works give the year of death 1843, the Stadtlexikon Darmstadt names 1873, Karl Esselborn August 4, 1873, Katharina Bott “after 1876”.

Lange was married to Sophie Eleonore Illig, a relative of the watchmaker Moritz Friedrich Illig .

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“The Herrenhäuser Allee in Hanover ”, seen from Königsworther Platz ;
Steel engraving by Ludwig Thümling after Wilhelm Kretschmer ,
single sheet from the Gustav Georg Lange publishing house in Darmstadt

Together with his brothers, the landscape painter Julius Lange and the architect Ludwig Lange , he created the original views of the most historically remarkable cities in Germany, their cathedrals, churches and other architectural monuments , which appeared from 1832 to 1856 in six volumes and around 1,500 steel engravings included, among others by Ernst Rauch , Karl Rauch , Gustav Adolph Müller and Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel . The brothers provided numerous templates for the engravings. Long project that he had been planning for a long time was novel in this form and its execution was of high quality. From the publication of the first issue in autumn 1832, the views quickly spread.

Long topographies of the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdoms of Prussia and Hanover as well as the “History and Description of Darmstadt and its Surroundings” published by Wilhelm Wagner were also published by Lange .

Other employees

literature

  • Sigrid Canz: "Prague and its immediate surroundings in picturesque original views". A travel book from the Darmstadt publisher Gustav Georg Lange and its use. In: Contributions to the II. Vedute Colloquium in Lüneburg 7. – 9. X. 1983 / III. Vedute Colloquium in Regensburg 3rd – 6th X. 1985 (= Lüneburg contributions to vedute research. Volume 2). Lüneburg, 2001, pp. 199-209.
  • Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 4. Berlin / Eberswalde 1907, p. 591 ( zeno.org ).
  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, craftsmen, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-11763-9 , p. 886.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Georg Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lange, Gustav Georg. Hessian biography. (As of September 1, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Lange, Georg Friedrich. In: Heinrich Eduard Scriba (ed.): Biographical-literary lexicon of the writers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the nineteenth century. Volume 2: The writers of the year 1843. G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1843, pp. 425–427, here p. 426, footnote ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ a b Hektor Rössler : Detailed report on the general German industrial exhibition in Mainz organized by the trade association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1842. CW Leske, Darmstadt 1843, p. 237 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ a b c d Alexa-Beatrice Christ: Lange, Gustav Georg, printing and publishing house. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt .
  5. ^ A b Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Volume 4. Berlin / Eberswalde 1907, p. 591 ( zeno.org ).
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Baur: Memoirs. With an introduction and explanations by Karl Esselborn. Selbstverlag, Darmstadt 1911, p. 252, end note 13 ( books.google.de );
    Katharina Bott quotes from: Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger : Friedrich Overbeck: The triumph of religion in the arts. Commentary and criticism - a documentation part II. In: Goethezeitportal.de. Discontinued in February 2005, status: November 2010.
  7. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Hessian gender book . tape 3 - volume 52 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families . Starke Verlag , 1927, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , p. 625 .
  8. ↑ Original views of the most distinguished cities in Germany, their most important cathedrals, churches and other architectural monuments of old and new times. Taken from nature by Ludwig Lange, engraved in steel by Ernst & Carl Rauch, Joh. Poppel, Gust. Ad. Müller and other German artists. With a topographical text by Dr. Georg Lange. 12 volumes. Lange, Darmstadt 1832 / 37–1856, digitized .
  9. ↑ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner: History and description of Darmstadt and its immediate surroundings, from the oldest to the most recent. GG Lange, Darmstadt 1839 (digitized version). For an overview, see the list of digital copies from Darmstadt at the Munich digitization center .
  10. ^ Höfer, E. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 190 .
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Gustav Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, GG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, printer, publisher and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1873
Place of death Darmstadt