Hamburger Kalender für das Buchgewerbe 1904 (front cover)
1904 calendar printed at Genzsch & Heyse’s in-house printing office in Hamburg (run at the time by Friedrich Bauer) to advertise the firm. Not just to advertise the Hamburg mother house, either, but also their Munich-based subsidiary, the E.J. Genzsch GmbH.
The illustration of the eagle on this cover was drawn by Otto Hupp.
In 1903, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Genzsch & Heyse’s establishment, the foundry was given permission by the Hamburg senate to include the city’s coat-of-arms in its “logo.” Hupp had been illustrating for the foundry for some time, but it is no surprise that he would draw this illustration: he was one of Germany’s leading heraldic artists.
Heraldically, the black eagle shown here is a printers’ eagle. He is holding a typecasting ladle in one set of talons. In the other, he has matrices for the letters G & H. The coat-of-arms on the eagle’s chest are Hamburg’s lesser coat-of-arms, which are white on red and feature a three-towered castle. The center tower has a cross on its top, while the other two towers are topped with Marian stars (long ago, Hamburg had been an archbishopric).
Hamburger Kalender für das Buchgewerbe 1904 (front cover)
1904 calendar printed at Genzsch & Heyse’s in-house printing office in Hamburg (run at the time by Friedrich Bauer) to advertise the firm. Not just to advertise the Hamburg mother house, either, but also their Munich-based subsidiary, the E.J. Genzsch GmbH.
The illustration of the eagle on this cover was drawn by Otto Hupp.
In 1903, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Genzsch & Heyse’s establishment, the foundry was given permission by the Hamburg senate to include the city’s coat-of-arms in its “logo.” Hupp had been illustrating for the foundry for some time, but it is no surprise that he would draw this illustration: he was one of Germany’s leading heraldic artists.
Heraldically, the black eagle shown here is a printers’ eagle. He is holding a typecasting ladle in one set of talons. In the other, he has matrices for the letters G & H. The coat-of-arms on the eagle’s chest are Hamburg’s lesser coat-of-arms, which are white on red and feature a three-towered castle. The center tower has a cross on its top, while the other two towers are topped with Marian stars (long ago, Hamburg had been an archbishopric).