Lipsius & Tischer

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Lipsius & Tischer was the name of a bookstore, an antiquarian bookstore, an art dealer and a publisher in Kiel .

history

On February 1, 1876, Gottfried Heinrich Lipsius and his partner Tischer founded the Lipsius & Tischer bookstore in Kiel, initially as a pure range store . Just one year later, partner Tischer left the company. After the founding of the German Empire in January 1871, Kiel experienced an economic upswing due to the expansion of the Imperial War Port. Lipsius & Tischer participated in this upswing through increasing sales, so that in 1891 they were able to move into their own three- story commercial building with a shop at Falckstrasse 9. There were also branches in Kiel at Schlossgarten 11 and Sophienblatt 1. From 1899 to 1914 there was also a branch in Tsingtau, China .

During the Second World War , on August 26, 1944, a bomb attack destroyed the office building at Falckstrasse 9. The office archive was also destroyed. After the war, a descendant of Gottfried Heinrich Lipsius moved into a new shop in 1951 at Holstenstrasse 80 with a bookshop. After two changes of ownership (1959 and 1999) and a move to Holstenstrasse 66, the bookstore was closed for economic reasons on June 17, 2006 after 130 years.

Second-hand bookshop

Soon after the start of business, the owner founded an independent antiquarian department. For the fiftieth business anniversary, the second-hand bookshop catalog no. 133 was published in 1925. In total, the offer was made in 150 catalogs until 1938. In addition, a total of 80 lists with the name Kieler Bücherfreund had appeared by 1938 .

According to its own information, the antiquarian bookshop Lipsius & Tischler mainly dealt with incunabula , woodcut books from the 16th century, German and French illustrated works from the 19th century, almanacs and calendars as well as original editions of German literature.

Art trade

The art trade operated as the Lipsius & Tischer art salon. In his research, the art historian Werner J. Schweiger was able to prove the publication of warehouse catalogs under the name Die Stichel . The first catalog was published in 1920. At the Kiel Autumn Week for Art and Science , which was organized on the initiative of Mayor Emil Lueken from September 11 to 19, 1920, the art salon showed graphics by Max Beckmann .

The art historian Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer emphasizes in his book about artists in Kiel (1918–1945) the promotion of the Kiel Expressionists through the art salon. The author includes the artists Werner Lange , Karl Peter Röhl and Friedrich Peter Drömmer in particular .

publishing company

The business activities were supplemented by a publishing house Lipsius & Tischer, which - as was common at the time - had a branch in Leipzig . In the decades before the Second World War, the publisher's program - it had its own legal form - extended to textbooks for school lessons and to topics from the marine, technology, medicine, natural sciences as well as topics from the then province of Schleswig-Holstein . During this time the authors included u. a. Klaus Groth , Friedrich Junge , Johanna Mestorf and Johann Meyer .

After the Second World War, publishing activities concentrated on titles by contemporary authors such as Franz Baake and Wilhelm Genazino .

Awards

Web links

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  • Berlinische Galerie : Werner J. Schweiger estate.
  • Lipsius & Tischer: Rare u. valuable books from five centuries. Antiquarian bookshop catalog No. 133, Kiel 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lipsius & Tischer: Rare u. valuable books from five centuries. Antiquarian Book Catalog No. 133, Kiel 1925, (p. 1).
  2. ↑ a b c Doris Tillmann, Johannes Rosenplänter (ed.): Kiel-Lexikon. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2011, Lemma Lipsius and Tischer.
  3. ↑ Review of the book by Günther Stamer im Gegenwind No. 376, January 2020.
  4. ^ Friedrich Junge: Natural history. The village pond as a living community together with a treatise on the goal and method of teaching natural history . Second improved and enlarged edition. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig 1891, advertising on the first pages.