Otto Flebbe

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The listed building at Theaterstrasse 14 in Hanover, seat of Otto Flebbe's art institute from 1900 to 1915

Otto Flebbe, Graphische Kunst-Anstalt was the name of an artistically oriented company founded in the 19th century for the production of clichés for commercially used woodcuts , etchings , graphics and photographs .

history

precursor

Already during the early days of industrialization , various lithographers produced copies of their own pictures in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover , for example Julius Giere , Hornemann, Niebour and Schwab as well as "[...] Flebbe" in 1839 . With "FL Flebbe" also were letterhead with idealized views of Hanover in the form of spring lithographs with the artist's signature E. O. available.

Otto Flebbe, Graphic Art Institute

"The old Linden poor house , popularly known as 'Hühnerloch'";
dot-grid photography, in: Hanomag-Wegweiser . Works newspaper for members of Hanomag , 1923

Born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the entrepreneur Otto Flebbe (* in the 19th century; † in the 20th century) opened his owner-managed company Otto Flebbe, Graphische Kunst-Anstalt in 1887, during the founding days of the German Empire . From the beginning, both technical and fictional wood engravings were produced for publishers and industrial companies. The printing blocks were delivered to clients in Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Great Britain. Even in the founding year, magazine publishers based in London were among the buyers, especially for technical papers such as Shipping World , The Engineer or The Industries .

A photo oxylography from 1899 with the signature “O. Flebbe ”, which - for the Hanover tram (today: Üstra ) - showed a view of the boiler room of the Hannoversche Maschinen-Bau Aktiengesellschaft Hanomag . The picture was published both as a photo- oxylographed wood engraving and as an unretouched photograph in a catalog on steam boiler systems as part of a photo documentation for the production and use of such equipment.

Private data on the entrepreneur was to be found in 1904 in the magazine Militär-Wochenblatt , in which a future groom honored his engagement to "[...] Miss Margarete Flebbe, [the] only daughter of Mr. Otto Flebbe and his wife, [ Marie,] born Fischer ”.

The location of the Flebbesche company was Theaterstrasse 14 , the building - today a listed building - which the architect Albrecht Haupt rebuilt in 1900 for the Langesche Foundation with originally rich Art Nouveau decor.

At the turn of the century Otto Flebbe had to adapt to the rapid changes in all areas of art, painting, advertising and printing technology and to adapt to new processes. The previously mainly manual artistic design of printing blocks has been increasingly replaced by "[...] photochemigraphic processes". In the first quarter of the 20th century, the now attached etching shop was the mainstay of the Graphic Art Institute. Line etching , grid and grain etching as well as two-, three- and four-color autotypes were part of the diversified product portfolio , while the employed artists and skilled workers continued to produce drawings and retouching in a traditional manner in their own department .

When the Hanover Sports, Racing and Festival Week was held from June 14th to 22nd of that year in Hanover as part of the inauguration of the New Town Hall , for example, an international swimming tournament with the artist's signature “O. Flebbe Hannover ”photograph of three swimmers, including Hermine Stindt and Grete Rosenberg . The recording then served as a print template to be converted for the Illustrirrte Rundschau , number 39 of the year.

In the middle of the First World War , Otto Flebbe, as liquidator, announced in an edition of the paper newspaper from 1915 the dissolution of the Graphic Art Institute, which was then run as a GmbH at Theaterstrasse 14a .

Archival material

Archival material from and about the company and / or Otto Flebbe's family can be found, for example

Web links

Commons : Otto Flebbe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Otto Flebbe, Graphische Kunst-Anstalt / Hannover, Theaterstraße 14 , in ders .: 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 ), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 142
  2. ↑ a b Karin Ehrich: Women as participants in the sports, racing and festival week , in Cornelia Regin (ed.): Splendor and power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover (= Hannoversche Studien. Series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Vol. 14), Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 396-400 ; here: p. 397
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Reden : The Kingdom of Hanover described statistically, initially in relation to agriculture, trade and commerce , Second section: Conditions of traffic in the Kingdom of Hanover and the neighboring states; Science and Art , Hannover: published by Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1839, p. 467; Preview over google books
  4. ^ Alheidis von Rohr : Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hanover from the 16th century to 2000 , exhibition catalog (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover , issue no. 17) Hanover 2000, pp. 40, 74; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b Irene Ziehe , Ulrich Hägele (ed.): Printed photography. Illustration, object and media format (= visual culture. Studies and materials , Vol. 10), Museum of European Cultures, National Museums in Berlin, Münster; New York, NY: Waxmann Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8309-3293-2 and ISBN 3-8309-3293-6 , p. 257; Preview over google books
  6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Tram / ÜSTRA. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 607f.
  7. ↑ Guido von Frobel (Red.): Military weekly paper ... , Volume 89, Part 2, ES Mitler and Son, 1904; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig: Theaterstrasse In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover. Part 1, (Vol.) 10.1. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 73f; as well as middle. in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 NDSchG (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) , status: July 1st, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6f.
  9. ↑ paper newspaper. Trade journal for paper production, processing, trade, book trade, stationery and office supplies , Karl Hofmann (C. Hoffmann), 1915, p. 252; Preview over google books
  10. ↑ Archive material files / German Evangelical Women's Association - bundle of cigars in: Files: German Evangelical Women's Association / around 1937, approx. 1977, 22 items on the meta-katalog.eu page , last accessed on April 24, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 34.2 ″  E