Stalks & Co.

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Logo of the company Stengel & Co. on one of their postcards
Ljubljana ; Postcard series VI, number 5684, collotype in blue, around 1898

The Kunstanstalt Stengel & Co. GmbH in Dresden was a book printing and bookbinding company . She produced both light pressure - as in the offset printing process and was one of the largest exporters of postcards .

history

Elisabeth zu Wied , Queen of Romania , numbered by hand : 23563
Number 18607 in black and white ( Leineinsel Klein-Venedig ); Distribution : F. Astholz jun, Hanover ; around 1900
Millstatt , Austria-Hungary , colored
Theodor Körner after Richard Knötel , so-called art or artist postcard

Founded in 1885, the company was already producing around 6,000 cards a day in 1888. The different views appeared in different series before 1900 and were numbered up to five digits consecutively , for example on a postcard from Laibach .

In 1891 the publishing house praised at the address Elisabethufer 56 in Berlin, a contest from for the design of congratulatory postcards with figural representations for different holidays. In addition to postcards and greeting cards, Stengel & Co. also reproduced portraits of well-known personalities, such as General Berthold Deimling .

Before 1900, Stengel & Co. produced entire series of local views: “In 1897, for example, the collotype series of Emden was created under the sign of the nature and homeland protection movement of that time and the romanticizing view of town and country that developed from it .

Stengel & Co. produced a series of postcards from the Slovenian town of Celje from around 1900 .

Postcard number 18607 was also published around 1900 with a photo of the Leineinsel Klein-Venedig in Hanover; the additional print on the picture side expressly identified the Hanoverian F. Astholz junior for distribution .

In the period from 1906 to 1908, the company published general instructions in English for US clients on how and under what circumstances Stengel & Co. could work for the client. The minimum order quantity for Artochrome postcards printed by Stengel and colored by machine was temporarily 3,000.

As a major order in 1908/10, the company carried out ten deliveries of ten pictures each The refuges and accommodation houses in the Eastern Alps as well as a register and route directory for the collective work The refuges and accommodation houses in the Eastern Alps for the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuÖAV ).

At the address Bärensteiner Straße 21 in Dresden, the company also advertised the production and printing of various cardboard boxes , for example "folding boxes, belt boxes, sliding boxes, outer boxes in all designs for all industries ". The company also advertised the Chlorodont brand and the cigarette manufacturer Georg A. Jasmatzi on an advertising poster .

In the 1920s, the future writer Reinhold Schneider worked commercially for the company.

Stengel & Co. existed until 1944, but stopped producing after the first air raids on Dresden during World War II .

According to the address book of the German book trade from 1948, the remaining property was transferred to Dresdener Verlagsges. mbH, Dresden, which last produced various prints in 1950.

literature

  • Helmfried Luers: The Postcard Album. no. 22 (excerpt in English), illustrated with an engraving of the early factory building and a sample card
  • Peter Leuter: Stengel and Co. In: AK Express. Issue no. 116 from 2005, pp. 9-16.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Löffler , Joachim Kirchner , Wilhelm Olbrich : Stengel & Co. GmbH , in: Lexicon of the entire book system , Volume 3: Petreius-Zyprische Schrift [and register], Hiersemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 335 ( restricted preview in the Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ a b Helmfried Luers: The Postcard Album (see literature)
  3. ↑ see this postcard from 1898.
  4. ↑ postcard 22205 Ljubljana
  5. ^ Arthur Pabst, Karl Hoffacker, Fritz Helwag: Competitions [as a snippet view], in: Kunstgewerbeblatt. Organ of the arts and crafts associations Berlin, Dresden , Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe IB, Königsberg i. Prussia, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Pforzheim and Stuttgart , Volume 10, Seemann, Leipzig 1891, p. 60.
  6. ↑ Portrait of the General
  7. ^ Detlef Hoffmann , Jens Thiele (eds.): Lichtbilder, Lichtspiele: Beginnings of Photography and Cinema in East Friesland , catalog for the exhibitions of the same name in Emden and Nienburg 1989. Jonas-Verlag für Kunst und Literatur, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-922561 -84-5 , p. 63 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ see Category: Postcards of Celje
  9. ↑ see map number 18607
  10. ↑ Bruno Stefan Scherer, Franz Anselm Schmitt: Reinhold Schneider. Life and work in documents. Karlsruhe 1973, ISBN 3-7617-0039-3 , p. 34 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  11. ↑ Ulrike Krause: Object finder eyepiece in: artifacts of modern archeology on the website of the Institute for Art Education at the University of Leipzig
  12. ^ Address book of the German book trade , edit. from the address book editors of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandler zu Leipzig, Volume 105, 1948, p. 233 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  13. ↑ Dresdner Verlagsges. in the German National Library

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 7.8 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 7.2"  E