Royal Institute of Lithography

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" Berlin " with the National Monument for the Wars of Liberation on the Kreuzberg ;
Drawing and lithography by Lütke, multi-color print by the Königl. Lithograph Institut zu Berlin, published by EH Schröder, Unter den Linden 23; Collection of the New York Public Library
Portrait of the dancer Fanny Elßler ;
Artist's signature "Jentzen, 1831"

The Royal Lithographic Institute , also known as the Lithographic Institute for short , was a printing company that was taken over by the state in 1818 and located at Münzstrasse 20 in Berlin . The institute went back to a lithographic establishment with an attached training school, which the Major General Ludwig von Reiche (1775-1857) had opened in Berlin in 1816. At first it was used by the War Ministry mainly for cartographic purposes and was therefore subordinated to the great General Staff . From 1820 it was called the Royal Lithographic Institute at the War Ministry . From 1825 the institute was also allowed to produce prints for a private audience. In 1861 the Royal Lithographic Institute was incorporated into the Royal Prussian State Printing Office .

The company specialized in lithographs . The publications of the institute held in the German National Library, especially from the time before the general spread of photography, include group pictures and especially portraits of well-known personalities based on drawings by various artists.

In the 20th century, the Berlin lithographer was the headline . Institute for example for a weather map from July 1, 1913 published by Gea Verlag . In the 1940s, the Berlin Lithographic Institute was still producing a large-format, multi-colored, double-sided traffic map during the Second World War - German Empire .

Lithographers

literature

  • Anna Ahrens: The pioneer: How Louis Sachse invented the art market in Berlin . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50594-3 , pp. 124 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Königliches Lithographisches Institut Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Herbert Stöwer, Hans-Peter Wehlt (ed.), Agnes Stache-Weiske (arrangement): What great times we are experiencing! The letters of the Chancellor of Lippe Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen to his son Georg in Constantinople 1847-1851 (= Lippische Geschichtsquellen , Volume 23), published on behalf of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land Lippe eV and the Lippischen Heimatbund eV, Lemgo: Editing Lippische Geschichtsquellen, 1999, ISBN 978-3-941726-03-1 and ISBN 3-923384-14-9 , p. 18; limited preview in Google Book search