Ludwig Hemmer (? - 1925) was a German printer and graphic artist in
Hanover.
[Paul Siedentopf: ''Ludwig Hemmer...''] The versatile entrepreneur, photographer and publisher of numbered postcards distributed his works produced in
collotype
Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the need for halftone screens. The majority of collotypes were produced between the 1870s and ...
under the name "L. Hemmer".
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Life
The Graphische Kunstanstalt was founded in 1876 by a Mr Hammers († 1899). In 1897, Hemmer became a partner in the company, which then traded as "Hammers & Hemmer". In 1902, Hammers was no longer named when the firm was mentioned. In Paul Siedentopf's ''...Buch der alten Firmen...'' (see further reading), next to the company logo "LH" in a square are the headings "Ludwig Hemmer, Graphische Kunstanstalt / collotype, prints
In molecular biology, the PRINTS database is a collection of so-called "fingerprints": it provides both a detailed annotation resource for protein families, and a diagnostic tool for newly determined sequences. A fingerprint is a group of conserve ...
, clichés, Designs, drawings, commercial art, advertising art" and as address ''Arnswaldtstraße 13'',
Work
Similar to his Hanoverian colleague Karl Friedrich Wunder
Karl Friedrich Wunder (1849 in Hanover - 1924 id.) was a German photographer, publisher of photo books and postcards.
Career
Wunder wurde 1849 – das genaue Datum ist unbekannt – geboren und erlernte das Fotografieren bei seinem Vater Fri ...
, Hemmer also produced
* a still unexplored number of numbered, partly also colorized picture postcards.[see for exampl]
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Hemmer's Kunstanstalt provided the printing block
Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. Each page or image is create ...
s of the text illustrations.[see Archive.org]
Digital copy of the book:
but the collotype
Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the need for halftone screens. The majority of collotypes were produced between the 1870s and ...
s were made by the Kunstanstalt von Georg Alpers junior for the book.
* ''Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover'', edition commissioned by the Provincial Commission for the Research and Preservation of Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Dr. phil. , Stadtbaurat, vol. III ( Regierungsbezirk Lüneburg), 1. Kreise Burgdorf and , with 2 plates and 62 text illustrations, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulze's Buchhandlung, Hannover 1902
References
Further reading
* : ''LUDWIG HEMMER, Graphische Kunstanstalt'', in ''Das Buch der alten Firmen der Stadt Hannover im Jahre 1927'', with the assistance of (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig (1927),
External links
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19th-century German photographers
20th-century German photographers
19th-century publishers (people)
20th-century publishers (people)
19th-century births
1925 deaths
Place of birth missing