Ansicht des Bilibog und des Rothsteins bei Löbau.

Title

Ansicht des Bilibog und des Rothsteins bei Löbau.

Description

Decorative view of Löbau in Poland, at the area of Görlitz with the montain Rotstein and the Bilbog.

ca. 1840

Artist

Medau (1791-1866)

Carl Wilhelm Medau was a German lithographer, book printer and publisher. He was active in 1829-1850. Carl Wilhelm Medau trained as a printer in Stettin. At the age of twenty-two, he moved to Leitmeritz as an experienced printer, where he worked for the printer F. K. Laube. After Laube's death in 1816, Medau married his widow Elizabeth Laube and became co-owner of the company, which was renamed “C. W. Medau”. The company was modernized, expanded and, in addition to the lithography, also had a book and art trade as well as its own publishing house. He was one of the pioneers of lithography and woodblock printing in Bohemia. In 1843, he founded a branch in Prague.