Louis Glaser
Louis Glaser in Leipzig was a printing company founded in the 19th century for book and stone printing as well as duplications through collotype , chemigraphy and photography . The headquarters of the lithographic institute with an affiliated art publisher , which among other things had specialized in the production of postcards and whose telegram address was " Autochrom , Leipzig", was the factory and building complex at the temporary address Kreuzstrasse 20 in the graphic quarter in Leipzig.
history
The company founded in Leipzig in 1868 by the namesake Louis Glaser (* around 1842; † 1911) merged with Carl Garte to form the Glaser & Garte publishing house during the so-called founding years in 1874 or in May 1875 . In 1881 or 1882 Louis Glaser founded his own art publisher, for which the architect Curt Nebel built a new printing house at Kreuzstraße 20 in 1901 .
After Louis Glaser's death, his sons Max and Paul continued to run the company as shareholders . 1929, the year the Great Depression , the printing company took over Heinrich Ferdinand Jütte the Kunstanstalt L. Glaser and moved into the building in Cross Street one that until served and in 2003 into a printing plant with only one preserved and finally renovated wing to the house was converted.
The Glaser / Frey lithographic process
Already in the last decades of the 19th century Louis Glaser had become internationally active and was - like other former publishers - many souvenir - albums with views of various regions out. At first glance, however, the Glaser views of the United States of America, for example, appeared to be photographs due to their texture and color. In fact, the recordings were initially based on real photographs taken at the respective locations by various authors. However, these photos were then idealized with the omission of disruptive or desired image elements and finally produced as lithography in various printing passes with up to 5 or more lithographic plates. The monochromatic effect created in this way, for example in the color gradations from very light to the darkest sepia- gray or pure black, was hardly or not at all known to the lithographers working in the USA. This so-called Glaser / Frey lithographic process , named after Louis Glaser in Leipzig and Charles Frey in Frankfurt am Main , not only conveyed the desired “glossing over” effect, but also left the viewer with the impression of a deep-reaching image - an illusion that up to the lithographs customary at that time had not reached.
More product examples
Apparently photographs (behind passepartout ) by Detmold ; in the illustrated book Detmold and the Teutoburg Forest , 1901
Lithographed postcard from the "Ostseebad Zinnowitz " on the island of Usedom
Wedding tower and exhibition building in Darmstadt
The “ City Theater ” in Graz
Reichstag building and Victory Column in Berlin ; “Autochrom” view card number 7225
Literature (selection)
about Louis Glaser :
- NN : Nekrolog , in: Leipziger Adress-Buch ; Digital copy of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
Web links
- Glaser / Frey collection of American viewbooks , collection of American illustrated books resulting from the cooperation between Glaser and Frey, in the Library of Congress
- Louis Glaser Leipzig at europeana .eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Compare the information under the GND number of the company at the German National Library
- ↑ a b c Compare, for example, the information on this invoice sheet used in 1915
- ↑ a b Gerhard Stumpp: The printing of postcards using the example of the Carl Garte Art Institute, Leipzig ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF document on the occasion of the IADM annual conference 2010 under the heading Alois Sennefelder and the consequences , last accessed on November 6, 2015
- ^ A b c Sabine Knopf: HF Jütte print shop / previously Louis Glaser Art Institute , in the same: Buchstadt Leipzig. The historical travel guide , Berlin: Links, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-634-5 , p. 36f; partly online via Google books
- ↑ a b c d e Compare the information from the DNB on Louis Glaser as well as the cross-references there
- ^ A b Heinz Peter Brogiato : Leipzig around 1900. The city center in colored postcards from the archive of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig eV , partly as a 2nd, corrected and updated edition, Leipzig: Lehmstedt, 2012, vol. 1: ISBN 978 -3-937146-69-0 , Vol. 2: ISBN 978-3-937146-46-1 , passim
- ↑ Ben Katchor: Handdrawn Photo-Views by Louis Glaser (in English, translated roughly: “Hand-painted photo views by Louis Glaser”), contribution on the page from the Melton Prior Institute founded by Alexander Roob in 2005 , with examples of images and forwarding about various souvenir albums
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 27.5 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 34.8 ″ E