Albert Henry Payne
Albert Henry Payne (* 14. December 1812 in London ; † 7. May 1902 in Leipzig ) was an English steel engraver , painter , illustrator and publisher .
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Life [ Edit | Source Edit ]
Payne came at an early age to Germany. From 1839 he worked as a steel engraver, painter and illustrator in Leipzig. In 1845 he founded with E. T. Brain the publisher English Kunstanstalt he in 1846 took over alone. [1] It was one of the first companies in the printing industry, which in the Graphic Quarter settled from Leipzig.
1861 bought the Payne four to five hectares of grounds are Great Cake garden and let it build the so-called Gothic House. The new house, later enlarged and renovated, now the seat of the English Kunstanstalt that his son continued later led as publisher was. The Payne-Verlag was only in 1952 deleted from the commercial register. The old house on the corner dive Straße / Center Street (now Rosa Luxembourg Street / Hans-Poeche Street) existed until the mid-1990s. It had to make way for a new building, which now extends from the Hans-Poeche Street by Listplatz.
The publisher of the English Art Institute A. H. Payne devoted to the steel and Kupferstecherei , published illustrated family journals and calendars as well as music . The series Payne's small score edition in 1892 to the Eulenburg Musikverlag sold.
Works [ Edit | Source Edit ]
From a Payne submitted Vogelschau of Bremen and two steel engravings from Bremen and Bremerhaven , after drawings by the Hamburg painter and lithographer Johann Heinrich Sander emerged (1810-1865) and in 1841 by Theodor von Kobbe (1798-1845) in his book walks on the North and Baltic Sea [2] were recorded. Moreover he made around 1840 twenty engravings of Leipzig.
Literature [ Edit | Source Edit ]
- Payne, Albert Henry: Album of the most beautiful views from the Nahethal. Creuznach. Voigtlander, [1852] online edition dilibri Rheinland-Pfalz
