Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co.

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Wall painting with a bird's eye view of the "Graphische Kunstanstalt" in Berlin-Schöneberg

Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co. was a German company in the printing technology , which around 1900 with branches in Berlin , Munich and Leipzig became the most important graphic arts establishment in Europe.

history

The company emerged in 1892 from the merger of the Munich art institute Meisenbach & Co., founded by Georg Meisenbach , the inventor of the autotype , around 1876 and the Berlin art institute founded by Heinrich Riffarth in 1886 . After Meisenbach's health-related retirement in 1891, the company was run by his long-term business partner, the Munich architect Joseph von Schmaedel , and his adopted son, the businessman August Meisenbach, at the time of the merger .

Following the merger, a new manufacturing facility and head office were built on the property at Hauptstrasse 7a in Berlin-Schöneberg . The Munich company continued to exist largely independently, and in 1894 a branch was established in Leipzig. The company gained worldwide recognition through high-quality reproductions of paintings and photographs in gravure ( heliogravure ) and was awarded at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 .

In the 1930s, the company still appeared through the publication of fashion photographs. 1971, it was with companies of Ferdinand Stauff for Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. - Bruns & Stauff GmbH merged . In 1994 this company went bankrupt .

literature

  • Rudolf Schmidt: German bookseller. German book printer. Volume 4. Berlin / Eberswalde 1907, pp. 670-672. ( online at zeno.org )
  • Ernst H. Berninger:  Meisenbach, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 684 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dorothea Peters: From printed photos to luxury small art. The picture production of the Graphische Kunstanstalt Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch , Volume 79 (2004), pp. 219–250.

Web links

Commons : Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 , p. 68.
  2. ↑ District Court 14057 Berlin (HRB5486) September 15, 1997.