Hirmer, Max

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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.

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  "Der Hirmer Verlag [History]." http://www.kunstbuecher-online.de/hirmer/verlag/.

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.