Ludwig Hemmer

Postcard with consecutive number 12 ( Ernst August Memorial ) and a "Congratulations on the New Years" from Ludwig Hemmer + Frau, geb. Buerschaper , from Arnswaldstrasse 13

Postcard without numbering, titled "The dwarf village and its inhabitants".

"Entry of the riflemen into the round section" on the old Schützenplatz ;
Postcard number 602; Photo around 1900

Colored view from the Lower Saxony State Museum over the square of the not yet built New Town Hall to Friedrichswall ; the addition to the "II. Association days of the Lower Saxony Stenotachygraph Association 2.-3. Mai 1903 "classifies this document as a so-called" event "or" reminder card "

Around 1900: Postcard number 6 “Hanover. Ernst-August-Platz ”, collotype and publisher by Ludwig Hemmer

Ludwig Hemmer († 1925 ) was a German printer and graphic artist in Hanover . The versatile entrepreneur , photographer and publisher of numbered postcards sold his collotype works under the name “L. Inhibitor ".

Life

The Graphische Kunstanstalt was founded in 1876 by a "Mr. Hammers" († 1899). In 1897 Ludwig Hemmer became a partner in the company, which then traded as "Hammers & Hemmer". In 1902, Hammers was no longer mentioned when the company was mentioned. In Paul Siedentopf's ... Book of the old companies ... (see literature), next to the company logo "LH", the headings "Ludwig Hemmer, Graphische Kunstanstalt / collotype, letterpress , clichés , drafts, drawings, commercial graphics, Werbekunst ”and Arnswaldtstrasse 13 , which was laid out as a street in 1888, as the address .

From this address the postcard with the serial number 12 is known with a view of the Ernst-August-Monument , handwritten by “Ludwig Hemmer + Frau, geb. Buerschaper ”was addressed to the August Reese family .

After Ludwig Hemmer's death in 1925, the company became Walter Hemmer .

Works (incomplete)

Similar to his Hanoverian colleague Karl F. Wunder , Ludwig Hemmer also produced

• a still unexplored number of numbered, partly colored picture postcards. So far, a number greater than 600 could be identified.
• an unknown number of postcards without numbering.

Hemmer's Kunstanstalt produced the “ printing blocks for the text images” for the book

• The art monuments of the province of Hanover , ed. on behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Dr. phil. Carl Wolff , Stadtbaurat, Vol. III ( administrative district Lüneburg ), 1st districts Burgdorf and Fallingbostel , with 2 plates and 62 text illustrations, self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulze's bookstore, Hanover, 1902

literature

• Paul Siedentopf : LUDWIG HEMMER, Graphische Kunstanstalt , in: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Anniversary-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig (1927), p. 143

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Hemmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Paul Siedentopf: Ludwig Hemmer ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} see for example the imprint on this postcard:
3. ^ Carl Wolff (ed.), Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover. III. Lüneburg administrative district. 1. District of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel , Hanover 1902, p. IV (PDF; 11.4 MB)
4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Arnswaldtstraße , in: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 29; Zimmermann quotes the Hanoverian history sheets from 1914, after which the street was named “after the former von Arnswaldt property over which it leads”.
5. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
6. ↑ see for example this postcard:
7. ↑ see for example this postcard with front and back:
8. ↑ ^{a b} see Archive.org : Digitized version of the book :, however , the collotype plates were made by Georg Alpers junior's art institute