Purger & Co.

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One of the oldest postcards from Purger from Bayreuth
Purger postcard from Bad Gastein

The publishing house Purger & Co. was a postcard publishing house based in Munich at Mozartstraße 13. The publishing house was probably founded by Adolf Purger. Company activities are documented for at least the years 1899 to 1920. It is possible that the company, which also called itself an art and publishing company, manufactured other products in addition to postcards.

The publisher is known for its colored postcards with motifs from all over Europe and the Mediterranean area, which were produced in a three-color chromolithographic print , known as photochromic printing . The cards are each printed with a photochromic card . The company not only printed cards for its own account, but also on behalf of other publishers and photographers.

Printer's note Purgers on postcards

Purger cards were initially numbered at the bottom of the picture page, but later - probably after 1905 - on the address side.

Typical purger card from Tinos

Purger & Co. is described as one of the world's most important manufacturers of color postcards of its time and one of the most influential postcard publishers of the golden age of postcards in the first years of the 20th century, alongside names such as the Künzlis in Zurich, Römmler & Jonas and Stengel & Co . in Dresden, Paul Trabert and Dr. Trenkler & Co. in Leipzig, Knackstedt & Näther in Hamburg, E. Maass in Berlin, Brunner & Co. in Como or the two Spanish publishers Hauser y Menet and Casa Laurent . In 1907, a critic praised Purger & Co. as a specialized printing company for “producing cards of excellent quality and in great variety” and particularly emphasized the colors, which “are reproduced by such perfect processes that their grading deserves special recognition”.

“The art and publishing company Purger & Co., Munich, is selling postcards in photochromic design. The cards are very well executed and are sure to be more popular. "

- Photographic Chronicle and General Photographers Newspaper

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geographical indicator. Sheets for geographic education combined with the magazine for school geography . Year 13. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1912, p. vii ( excerpt from Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ This information is based on the printed logo on picture postcard no. 5974, sold by the Austrian postcard dealer Harald Lehenbauer.
  3. ^ Publishers: P (page 2). In: Metropostcard.com. Accessed December 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Jorge Francisco Jiménez Jiménez: Toledo: Revista de arte . In: Esther Almarcha Núñez-Herrador, Silvia García Alcázar, Esmeralda Muñoz Sánchez (eds.): Fotografía y memoria: I Encuentro en Castilla-La Mancha . Centro de Estudios de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real 2006, ISBN 978-84-8427-486-5 , p. 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ From map No. 527 Alt-Teuffenbach castle ruins and Neu-Teuffenbach town. (Obersteierm. I. Murthale) a copy that ran in September 1899 has come down to us.
  6. ↑ a b book show . In: Photographische Chronik and Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung . tape 18 , no. 52 . Wilhelm Knapp, Halle a. P. June 25, 1911, p. 318 ( excerpt from Google book search).
  7. ^ Jorge Francisco Jiménez Jiménez: La colleción de postales del archivo municipal de Toledo. Formacion, conservacion, descripcion y difusión . In: Lucía Crespo Jiménez, Rafael Villena Espinosa (eds.): Fotografía y patrimonio: Il Encuentro en Castilla-La Mancha . Centro de Estudios de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real 2007, ISBN 978-84-8427-582-4 , pp. 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ As an example, the map No. 123840 Albania, Scutari - Fortress. Shkodra. Fortezza di Scutari which on the address side names a local publisher in addition to the Purger printing company.
  9. ^ Ángel J. Roig Meca: Tarjeta Postal, Región de Murcia . Ediciones Tres Fronteras, Murcia 2004, p. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ^ Carlos Teixidor Cadenas: La Tarjeta Postal en España: 1892-1915 . Espasa Calpe, Madrid 1999, ISBN 978-84-239-9296-6 , pp. 18 ( limited preview in Google Book Search): "... (de Berlín)," Purger & Co. " (de Munich), "Stengel & Co." (de Dresde), “Knackstedt & Näther” (de Hamburgo), “Römmler & Jonas” (de Dresde), “E. Maass »(de Berlín), y« Dr. Trenkler Co. » (de Leipzig). De todas ellas, "Purger & Co." fue la que sobresalió en cuanto ... "
  11. ↑ The American Stationer . Volume 61. Howard Lockwood, 1907, pp. 6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search): “Among the most capable art printers in that city are Purger & Co., who specialize in the production of cards of excellent quality and great variety. The triumph of photochromic work has provoked the realization that the instructive worth of the souvenir or art card is of consequence in so far only as the card is a reproduction of the natural original. The photographically acquired new productions which Purger & Co. copy from models in a special line in their industry are reproduced through such perfected process that the graduation of color merit appreciative recognition. And the firm owes its high artistic reputation to the original work of excellent artists who give their services in the realm of fancy. In this connection it is necessary to name only the pictures of W. Grabheim, the painter of the chase, or the rich colors of the masterly executed horse series of Van der Venn to indicate something of the firm's inexhaustible store. "