Heintze & Blanckertz
Heintze & Blanckertz is a company founded in Berlin in 1849 in the arts and crafts and design sector and based in Wehrheim . The company achieved great fame as a manufacturer of nibs in the first half of the 20th century.
history
Heintze & Blanckertz was founded by Rudolf Heintze and Heinrich Blanckertz (1823–1908) in Oranienburg near Berlin and was the first factory for nibs in Germany. Since the space was too small for the size of the nibs, the company often used the acronym "TIF" on them . Until then, the quill pen was used to write, until 1875 was Soennecken founded as the second company in this field and produced in 1881 springs. The quality of the high-quality design tools was appreciated by applied designers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Paul Renner expressly recommended these for sketching or for writing in his book Die Kunst der Typographie (Reedition 2003).
The Rudolf Blanckertz Typeface Museum opened in 1926 (the collection has been in the Gutenberg Museum since 1962 ), and from 1928 the design magazine Die Zeitgemäße typeface study books for typeface and design was published. Heintze & Blanckertz maintained contacts with contemporary designers such as Rudolf Koch and Edward Johnston , who entrusted their publications to the in-house Heintze & Blanckertz publishing house . The company's range of nibs was expanded to include handicrafts. In 1937 the company received a silver medal at the World Exhibition in Paris.
In 1945 the production facilities in Oranienburg were destroyed, the remains were dismantled by the Red Army, and the plant was then nationalized. The VEB Kaltwalzwerk Oranienburg was founded at the site, which has been modernized several times and produced cold strip. The company Heintze & Blanckertz was re-established in West Berlin , but later the move to the Frankfurt area followed . With the advent of the ballpoint pen, the market for nibs was limited to artistic sketching and calligraphy , so that today the company has mainly been active in the fields of handicrafts and design .
literature
- Franz Hendrichs: Blanckertz, Heinrich Siegmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 284 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Hendrichs: Blanckertz, Heinrich Siegmund . In: New German Biography
