Gustav Georg Lange
Gustav Georg Lange (born January 6, 1812 in Darmstadt , died probably 1873) was a German bookseller , printer, publisher and draftsman. He operated a publishing house specialized in illustrated topographies with a printing company in Darmstadt.
Gustav Georg Lange was the son of the military official Christian Friedrich Lange (1759-1840), who was General Staff Auditor in Darmstadt, and the Karoline Friederike Stockmar (1776-1838). He attended the Darmstadt school and settled in Frankfurt trained as a bookseller. In 1831 or 1832 he founded an art and bookstore in Darmstadt. the end of 1835, he opened an additional copper and steel printing in the Darmstadt Rheinstraße 47. Long business quickly expanded and specialized in topographical publications that he last in relatively long runs on 16 presses in the steel engraving process created. [4]In 1842, a printing works building was opened.
The further development of the publishing house and the bookstore are unclear; in the 1850s and 1870s parts have been taken over by other entrepreneurs.
About Long date of death there is no consensus: some biographical reference passed as death year 1843, the Stadtlexikon Darmstadt calls in 1873, Karl Esselborn 4 August 1873, Catherine Bott "after 1876".
"Herrenhäuser Allee in Hannover ", seen from Königsworther Platz ;
Steel engraving by Ludwig Thümling after Wilhelm Kretschmer ,
single sheet from the publishing house Gustav Georg Lange in Darmstadt
Together with his brothers, the landscape painter Julius Lange and the architect Ludwig Lange , he created the original views of the most historically curious cities in Germany, their cathedrals, churches and other monuments , which appeared in six volumes from 1832 to 1856 and about 1500 steel engravings included, among others, Ernst Rauch , Karl Rauch , Gustav Adolph Müller and Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel . The brothers provided numerous templates for stitches. [4]Long project, which he had planned for a long time, was novel in this form and its execution of high quality. From the publication of the first issue in the autumn of 1832, the views quickly spread.
As a further regional studies publications published by Lange topographies of the Grand Duchy of Baden and the kingdoms of Prussia and Hanover as well as by Wilhelm Wagner published "History and description of Darmstadt and its surroundings".
