Full Name: Hirmer, Max
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Classical
Overview
Art book publisher and classicist. Hirmer was the son of Albert Hirmer und Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer, photographers and photo-documenters. After World War II, Hirmer founded his publishing firm in 1948 principally as a way to publicize art using the most advanced photo technology. The firm was an outgrowth of a society for the advancement of study photographs, (“Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliches Lichtbild”), which his parents had amassed.
Selected Bibliography
and Doerig, Jose, and Fuchs, Werner and Boardman, John. Die griechische Kunst. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1966, English, Greek Art and Architecture. New York: Abrams, 1967, [British title:] The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece. London: Thames & Hudson, 1967.
Sources
“Der Hirmer Verlag [History].” http://www.kunstbuecher-online.de/hirmer/verlag/.