Heinrich Arnz

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Heinrich Gottfried August Hubertus Arnz (born February 3, 1785 in Düsseldorf ; † June 11, 1854 there ) was a German printer , publisher and editor .

Life

On February 21, 1813, he married Maria Catharina Carolina Drach (1794-1870). The marriage gave birth to nine children: August (1813–1846, publisher), Catharina Louise Josephine (1817–1891, wife of the painter Eugene von Guerard ), Carl (* 1821, manager), Otto (landscape painter), Marie (* 1825, wife of the painter Joseph Fay ), Friedrich (* 1826, brother-in-law of the painter Philipp Schmitz ), Julie (1827–1896, wife of the painter Oswald Achenbach ), Marie Anna Fernandine (* 1829, wife of the painter Albert Flamm ) and Albert (landscape painter).

With his brother Joseph and the music dealer Johann Christian Winckelmann (1766-1845) is Arnz teamed up in 1815 to 1 October 1816 Dusseldorf the company Arnz & Winckelmann as lithographic institute , publishing house and printing office to start. The company initially established itself as a printing company for forms, school books (atlases) and picture sheets and rose to become one of the leading art publishers in German-speaking countries. After the co-partner Winckelmann left in 1828 and his brother Josef died in 1841, the sons Carl and Otto entered the publishing business. The son August took over a branch in Leiden , the Netherlands, in 1840 . Arnz was a member of the Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig .

Arnz took an active part in the art life of the city of Düsseldorf. Not only through his sons and sons-in-law he belonged to the environment of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , he was also involved in business with it, as he printed and laid out and sold their products. Furthermore, since the founding year 1829 he was one of the important supporters of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . In 1850 he had himself portrayed by the prominent German-American painter Emanuel Leutze . The portrait is now in the possession of the City Museum of the State Capital Düsseldorf .

literature

  • Elsbet Colmi: Splendor and misery of a lithographic establishment. Arnz & Comp. Düsseldorf 1815-1858 . In: Librarian Additional Hours. Dedicated to Joseph Gießler on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Publications of the State and City Library Düsseldorf, Volume 5, Düsseldorf 1964, pp. 44–67.

Web links

  • Heinrich Arnz , biographical data and portrait painted by Leutze in the portal emuseum.duesseldorf.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candice Bruce: The Studio of Eugene von Guerard . In: Wessel Reinink, Jeroen Stumpel (Ed.): Memory & Oblivion. Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art Held in Amsterdam, September 1-7, 1996 . Springer-Science + Business Media, Dordrecht 1999, ISBN 978-94-010-5771-4 , Volume 1, p. 868
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Simon (ed.): Mörike in the mirror of his letters from publishers, editors and editors . Publications of the German Schiller Society, Volume 48, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7681-9805-7 , p. 164 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Börsenblatt for the German book trade and the branches of business related to it . Eighteenth year, Volume I: January – June, Leipzig 1851, p. 642 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Sabine Herder: Arnz & Comp. A lithographic institution between theater and artists . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 284
  5. ^ Portrait of Heinrich Arnz , website in the portal europeana.eu
personal data
SURNAME Arnz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnz, Heinrich Gottfried August Hubertus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer owner, publisher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1854
Place of death Dusseldorf