Wilhelm Kick

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Wilhelm Kick , also Wilh. Kick and W. Kick (* 19th century ; † 20th century ) was a German editor and publisher who was based in Stuttgart . There he founded the architecture publishing house Kick in the 1890s .

Life

Wilhelm Kick worked as an architect in the Württemberg state capital, Stuttgart. From the beginning of the 1880s he published numerous specialist books and portfolios on building construction , arts and crafts and artistic topics, which initially appeared mostly for various Stuttgart publishers . This includes in particular several compilations with drafts , templates and executed examples for joiner, glazier, locksmith, blacksmith, wood carving and sculpting work, etc., which were selected by Kick and edited for publication, whereby he also used numerous photographs . Among other things, he published works by the art locksmith C. Schwickert jun. in Pforzheim and the Stuttgart sculptor Wilhelm Rösch .

In 1894, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the architects' association of the Technical University of Stuttgart , Kick was commissioned to create and publish a commemorative publication for the association's anniversary.

From 1894 Kick emerged with various portfolios on current architecture , in which he compiled and edited selected examples of contemporary new buildings, etc. as editor and mostly published in the publishing house he founded. His portfolio of Modern New Buildings was particularly popular and more widely known . In 1902 he published a portfolio of country house buildings for the Danish architect Aage von Kauffmann , who at the time was very successful in the Rhine-Main area .

Kick made his last publications or new editions around 1910.

The architecture publishing house Kick

The Publisher

Before or in the year 1894 Kick founded his own publishing house, the architecture publishing house Kick , based in Stuttgart, in which he mainly published the portfolio works he published from then on. The first published collection of Modern New Buildings was followed by several portfolios on new residential and commercial buildings , villas, etc. and other architectural topics.

Kick used architectural photographs of facades and interiors as well as floor plans and sections of the buildings presented and had the large-format illustrated panels of the portfolio produced by the Stuttgart-based art institute Carl Ebner using the high-quality fine printing process of the then modern collotype . The portfolios and the associated boards were sold by the Kunstanstalt Ebner, mostly as a subscription to several partial deliveries and sometimes as commission sales .

These sample collections in the form of portfolio works, generally around the turn of the century were widespread in Germany, were part of Kick several times and partly in another compilation launched and later appeared in part as revisions for other publishers, most recently to the 1950s.

The portfolio of modern new buildings

Kick's portfolio of modern new buildings was published from 1894 to 1898 ff. In a total of 4 years, some with non-consecutive publication dates / years (see list of works). It contained 100 illustrated collotype plates per year in the large format of 33 × 46  cm , which were issued in 10, later in 5 deliveries per year. Each year folder contained a supplementary text insert of approx. 5 double pages each. As with his other portfolios, production and distribution were carried out by the Stuttgart art institute Ebner.

The collection presented 100 new buildings with photos and floor plans; originally limited to new buildings from southern and central Germany, coming from all over Germany from the second year onwards. It was Kick's claim (as stated on the portfolio titles) to present a “selection of the best architecture by the most important architects”. However, Kick did not publicly state his selection criteria; this also applied to his subsequent portfolios.

  • The new Peterskirche in Frankfurt am Main (1891–1894; Architects: Grisebach  & Dinklage , Berlin). In: W. Kick (Ed.): Moderne Neubauten , 2nd year 1895, plate 85.

  • Interior view of the Peterskirche in Frankfurt am Main (1891–1894; architect: Hans Grisebach , Berlin). In: W. Kick (Ed.): Moderne Neubauten , 2nd year 1895, plate 77.

  • View of the Villa Dicke in Wuppertal-Barmen. (Architect: Weber) In: W. Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings , 2nd year 1895, plate 23.

  • The Villa Friedrichsruh in Dresden-Löbtau (1898; Architects: Schilling & Graebner , Dresden). In: W. Kick (Ed.): Moderne Neubauten , 4th year 1898, plate 28.

  • Floor plan of the Villa Friedrichsruh in Dresden-Löbtau (1898; Architects: Schilling & Graebner). In: W. Kick (Ed.): Moderne Neubauten , 4th year 1898, plate 27.

Assignment and reception

Kick belongs to the group of people who introduced the medium of photography in books and other publications in the second half of the 19th century and who at that time used new image reproduction methods . One of his early illustrated collections was included as an example by the library and information scientist Frank Heidtmann in his bibliographic study How the Photo Came Into the Book, published in 1984 : The portfolio on sculptor motifs from 1891, which Kick published together with the sculptor Rösch, and the 80 photographic one Contains images in "finest collotype reproductions" on 40 plates in folio format.

Kick's claims, which were expressed by titles such as exemplary plastic motifs for the study and the arts and crafts practice of the sculptor in the aforementioned portfolio and “ textbook ” from 1891, were not always shared by contemporary critics; Thus, in 1893 , the literary Centralblatt für Deutschland dismissed the sculptural works by Bösch presented as “exemplary” as works by a “decoration sculptor” and recommended the book title “Illustrated Catalog of Sculptor x” - then “the criticism would be silent ".

The sample collection for cabinet makers, published by Kick in 1886 together with Otto Seubert, was on view in 1997 in the exhibition “Wood and Polish - Books for Cabinet Makers” at the Lippische Landesbibliothek in Detmold as a stock exhibit there. His portfolio Baroque, Rococo and Louis XVI, published in 1897 . from Swabia and Switzerland , which was described in 1914 by the Württemberg Ministry of Churches and Schools as a “splendid work in collotype” for the “Swabian Baroque ”, is now one of the “treasures of the Weimar University Library ”.

Kick's portfolio Moderne Neubauten (1894–1898ff) was included by civil engineer and librarian Rolf Fuhlrott in his doctoral thesis from 1974 at the University of Karlsruhe on historical architecture journals and described in the bibliographical part of the doctoral thesis published in 1975 under the title German-language architecture journals . Fuhlrott characterized the portfolio as a “collection of completed buildings”, which conveyed an “impression of the building trade” by “important architects such as Billing , Curjel and Moser , Eisenlohr and Weigle , Messel and von Thiersch ”.

The art scholar and head of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Monument Preservation, Wolfgang Brönner , dealt with his monograph Die bürgerliche Villa in Deutschland in 1987 . 1830–1890 also with Kick's portfolio of modern new buildings and placed it in a series of sample collections such as Hugo Lichts Architektur Berlins (1877) and Architektur Deutschlands (1882), the Architektonische Rundschau (1885–1916), the Architectural Sketchbook (1852–1886) or the architecture of the Hanover School (1888–1895) published by Gustav Schönermark .

Several panels from the work Modern New Buildings , which is part of the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin and is represented in the online offer there with more than 300 panels as testimony to the work of numerous architects, were shown in 1997 in the exhibition “Renaissance of the Renaissance” of the Weser Renaissance Museum at Brake Castle near Lemgo shown as examples of Renaissance architecture and reproduced in the exhibition catalog .

Works (selection)

Editing and editing / publication in external publishers
  • The practical joiner. A collection of all building joinery and glazing work occurring in the interior expansion of the modern era with details on an enlarged scale. Wittwer, Stuttgart 1885 (with: Otto Seubert).
  • Collection of samples for cabinet makers. A collection of mostly executed designs and drawings of furniture of all kinds. With details in natural size and with price calculations. Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1886 (with: Otto Seubert).
  • Collection of samples for locksmiths. A collection of drafts and mostly executed drawings of railings, fillings, gate closures and other locksmith and blacksmith work of all kinds. 1887 (with: Otto Seubert);
    New edition. Otto Maier, Ravensburg (around 1900).
  • Sample book for locksmiths. A collection of drafts and executed locksmith and blacksmith work of all kinds. With details in enlarged scale & templates in natural size. Wilhelm Nitzschke, Stuttgart 1890.
  • Exemplary three-dimensional motifs for the study and the arts and crafts practice of the sculptor. Stuttgart 1891 (with: Wilhelm Rösch ).
  • Architectures. Presentation to celebrate the XXVth anniversary of the Architects' Association of the Technical University of Stuttgart. A collection of drafts and buildings carried out by members of the association. O. Arndt, Stuttgart 1894 (title addition: With 43 collotype plates after photographs and drawings, printed by Carl Ebner, Stuttgart. ).
  • Competition designs for a town hall in Stuttgart. C. Ebner, Stuttgart 1895.
Editing and editing / publication in our own architecture publishing house Kick , Stuttgart
  • Portfolio of modern new buildings. [...] . 4 years (each 100 collotype boards, with text supplements):
    • 1st year, 1894 (published under the title Modern New Buildings from South and Central Germany. Illustrated sheets for architecture appear continuously ).
    • 2nd year, 1895ff. (From the 2nd year the portfolio was published under the title Modern New Buildings. Illustrated sheets for architecture appear continuously ).
    • 3rd year, 1898ff.
    • 4th year, 1898ff.
    • Modern new buildings. Volume 3rd new edition. C. Ebner, Stuttgart 1898 (100 collotype plates).
  • Portfolio of simple new buildings. A collection of villas, apartment buildings, single-family houses, etc. in a simple modern design, by important architects. 2 years (102 panels each):
    • 1st year, 1899.
    • 2nd year, 1900.
    • New edition. Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart (around 1910).
    • New edition. C. Ebner, Stuttgart (approx. 1950).
  • Aage von Kauffmann : Modern country houses. Nature photographs of facades and interiors with floor plans by architect A. von Kauffmann in Frankfurt a. M. 1902 (portfolio with 40 plates).
  • Baroque, Rococo and Louis XVI. from Swabia and Switzerland. 1903 (Text: Berthold Pfeiffer; 80 photos of nature in collotype with 8 panels of ground plans and cross sections).
    • 2nd, revised edition. Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1907.
  • Carpentry work carried out. Front doors and gates. 1904.
  • Old town pictures from Swabia. 1909. (text by Julius Baum)
  • Portfolio Modern Architectures. Executed residential and commercial buildings, villas, single-family houses etc. in modern execution by important architects, as well as a number of excellent examples from the Baroque period etc.
Series 1 (probably no further series), 90 picture panels and 10 text panels in six volumes (= folders) with a different number of panels per volume, published 1905–1907
New edition under the title: Simple new buildings. Residential and commercial buildings, villas, single-family houses etc. in a simple modern design. Part 1–4 (Issues 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–10.) C. Ebner, Stuttgart (approx. 1950).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Rolf Fuhlrott: Deutschsprachige Architektur-Zeitschriften. Origin and development of the architecture journals in the period from 1789–1918. With list of titles and records of holdings. Verlag Documentation, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3653-0 , p. 205 (also dissertation , University of Karlsruhe 1974; online at Google books ).
  2. ↑ a b c According to bibliographical information from the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia ( online ).
  3. ^ A b Rolf Fuhlrott: German-language architecture magazines. Origin and development of the architecture journals in the period from 1789–1918. With list of titles and records of holdings. Verlag Documentation, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3653-0 , pp. 136, 290, 314 ( online at Google books).
  4. ↑ Quoted from: Rolf Fuhlrott: Deutschsprachige Architektur-Zeitschriften. Origin and development of the architecture journals in the period from 1789–1918. With list of titles and records of holdings. Verlag Documentation, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3653-0 , p. 136ff.
  5. ↑ Frank Heidtmann: How the photo got into the book. The way to the photographically illustrated book based on a bibliographic sketch of the early German publications with original photographs, photolithographs, collotype prints, photo engravings, autotypes and with illustrations in other photomechanical reproduction processes. A handout for librarians and antiquarians, book and photo historians, bibliophiles and photography collectors, publicists and museum people. Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-87061-169-3 , p. 493 (series of publications by the German Society for Photography , Vol. 2).
  6. ^ Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland , Ed .: Friedrich Zarncke , Verlag E. Avenarius, Volume 44, 1893, p. 174 ( online at Google Books).
  7. ↑ Wood and polish - books on cabinet making. Exhibition of the Lippe State Library from 7.2. until March 7, 1997 . On: Website of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold ; Retrieved May 26, 2011.
  8. ^ Eduard Paulus (†), Ministry of Churches and Schools (Württemberg) (ed.); Julius Baum (arrangement): The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Danube district. Neff, Stuttgart 1914, p. 51 ( The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg , Vol. 4, Part 1; online at Google books).
  9. ^ Ingrid Kranz, Weimar University Library (ed.): Treasures of the Weimar University Library. Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-86068-130-3 , p. 34 ( online at Google books).
  10. ^ Rolf Fuhlrott: German-language architecture magazines. Origin and development of the architecture journals in the period from 1789–1918. With list of titles and records of holdings. Verlag Documentation, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3653-0 , p. 136 ( online at Google books).
  11. ^ Wolfgang Brönner: The bourgeois villa in Germany. 1830-1890. With special consideration of the Rhineland. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-491-29029-5 , p. 2021 ( articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland , vol. 29).
  12. ↑ Bernd Altmann: "My motto for life remains Renaissance." The architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli (1842–1930). Dissertation, University of Trier 2000, pp. 19–20, 163 ( online , PDF file, 2.52 MB; accessed on May 26, 2011).
  13. ↑ G. Ulrich Großmann, Petra Krutisch (Ed.): Renaissance of the Renaissance. A bourgeois art style in the 19th century. Exhibition in the Weser Renaissance Museum at Brake Castle near Lemgo, May 2 to October 18, 1992. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-06086-3 , pp. 457–458 ( Writings from the Weser Renaissance Museum at Brake Castle , vol. 5 ).
  14. ↑ A comparison of some of the construction dates of the buildings shown (for details see discussion: Wilhelm Kick ) makes a date of publication for the year 1902 plausible
personal data
SURNAME Kick, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kick, Wilh .; Kick, W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century