Description
Ludwig Julius Heymann was a prolific German globe maker based in Berlin. He began as a bookseller in Breslau in 1858 and moved the shop to Berlin in 1861. In 1883, he began producing globes under the company name Geographisch-artistische Anstalt [Geographic Artistic Institute] Ludwig Julius Heymann. Professor Henry Lange (1821-1893) was a longtime Heymann employee and designer of the gores. Heymann produced a wide range of terrestrial globes, from 5 cm to 36 cm in diameter, some of which were for export and thus in languages other than German. The stand styles ranged from simple wooden ones to elaborate decorative metal stands with sculptural figures supporting the globes. After Heymann’s death in 1899, the company was run by a succession of owners and moved to Leipzig around 1909. After World War I it issued some globes with Wagner and Debes. The company went out of business in 1930.
References:
Allmayer-Beck, Peter E., ed. Modelle der Welt: Erd-und Himmelsgloben — Kulturerbe aus oesterreichischen Sammlungen. [Models Of The World: Terrestrial And Celestial Globes — Cultural Inheritance from Austrian Collections.] Vienna: Bibliophile Edition/Christian Brandstaetter Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. pp. 204-205, 213, 216.
“Geographisch-artistische Anstalt Ludwig Julius Heymann (1883-1930). Staatbibliothek zu Berlin. https://staatsbibliothek–berlin-de.translate.goog/die-staatsbibliothek/abteilungen/karten/sammlungen/bestaende/berliner-globen-1800-1955/heymann (1 September 2022).
Lamb, Tom and Collins, Jeremy. The World in Your Hands: An Exhibition of Globes and Planetaria. London: Christie’s, 1994. p. 101.
