Ludwig Hemmer

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Ludwig Hemmer (? - 1925) was a German printer and graphic artist in Hanover.^[2] The versatile entrepreneur, photographer and publisher of numbered postcards distributed his works produced in collotype under the name "L. Hemmer".^[3]

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.^[4] 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, clichés, Designs, drawings, commercial art, advertising art" and as address Arnswaldtstraße 13,^[2] which was created as a street in 1888.^[5]

From this address, the picture postcard with the serial number 12 is known with a view of the Ernst-August-Denkmal [ de ], which was handwritten by "Ludwig Hemmer + Frau, geb. Buerschaper" and addressed to the family August Reese.^[6]

After Hemmer's death, the company became Walter Hemmer in 1925.^[2]

Work

Similar to his Hanoverian colleague Karl Friedrich Wunder, Hemmer also produced

a still unexplored number of numbered, partly also colorized picture postcards.^[3] So far, numbering greater than 600 could be identified.^[7]
an unknown number of picture postcards without numbering.^[8]

Hemmer's Kunstanstalt provided the printing blocks of the text illustrations.^[9]

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. Carl Wolff [ de ], Stadtbaurat, vol. III (Regierungsbezirk Lüneburg), 1. Kreise Burgdorf and Landkreis Fallingbostel [ de ], with 2 plates and 62 text illustrations, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulze's Buchhandlung, Hannover 1902^[9]

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References

↑ 1911 Ludwig Hemmer Lindener Berg mit Küchengarten-Pavillon on Alamy
1 2 3 Paul Siedentopf: Ludwig Hemmer...
1 2 see for example imprint on dieser Ansichtskarte:
↑ Carl Wolff (ed.), Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover. III. administrative district of Lüneburg. 1. districts of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel, Hanover 1902, p. IV (PDF; 11.4-MB)
↑ Helmut Zimmermann [ de ]: Arnswaldtstraße, in Die Straßennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung [ de ], Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6, p. 29; Zimmermann cites the Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter [ de ] from 1914, according to which the street was named "after the former von Arnswaldt property over which it runs".
↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks)
↑ see for example diese Ansichtskarte:
↑ see for example diese Ansichtskarte mit Vorder- und Rückseite:
1 2 see Archive.org: Digital copy of the book:, but the collotypes were made by the Kunstanstalt von Georg Alpers junior for the book.

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[1] 1911 Ludwig Hemmer Lindener Berg mit Küchengarten-Pavillon on Alamy

[Siedentopf-2] 1 2 3 Paul Siedentopf: Ludwig Hemmer...

[PC_0006-3] 1 2 see for example imprint on dieser Ansichtskarte:

[4] Carl Wolff (ed.), Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover. III. administrative district of Lüneburg. 1. districts of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel, Hanover 1902, p. IV (PDF; 11.4-MB)

[5] Helmut Zimmermann [ de ]: Arnswaldtstraße, in Die Straßennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung [ de ], Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6, p. 29; Zimmermann cites the Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter [ de ] from 1914, according to which the street was named "after the former von Arnswaldt property over which it runs".

[6] Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks)

[7] see for example diese Ansichtskarte:

[8] see for example diese Ansichtskarte mit Vorder- und Rückseite:

[archive.org-9] 1 2 see Archive.org: Digital copy of the book:, but the collotypes were made by the Kunstanstalt von Georg Alpers junior for the book.

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