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Victor Hammer's art class at Wells College - Image Source

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Dates of Original:

c. 1939 - 1948

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Historical Context

Victor Hammer was born in Vienna on December 9, 1882. Fifteen years later, he began his apprenticeship in architecture, and a year after that he transferred into the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1922, Hammer moved to Florence where he set up a printing press. In 1939 he fled Europe and the Second World War and came to the United States with his wife, Rosl. They moved to Aurora, NY, where Hammer taught the fine arts at Wells College. Hammer was an artist in many fields but had gained a worldwide reputation as a book craftsman who designed, cut and cast his own type. He brought to the college an antique flatbed press dating from around the turn of the century and while at Wells he printed his own books by hand. With the assistance of his son, Jacob, he established the Wells College Press, which put out some three dozen books, distinctive for beautiful and artistic printing,

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Victor Hammer

American painter

For the businessman and art collector, see Victor Hammer (businessman).

Victor Karl Hammer (December 9, 1882 – July 8, 1967) was an Austrian-born American painter, sculptor, printer, and typographer.

Early life

Hammer was born in Vienna, Austria to Karl and Maria (Fuhrmann) Hammer. He began his apprenticeship in architecture at the age of fifteen in the studio of Camillo Sitte, author of Der Staedte-Bau nach seinen kuenstlerischen Graundsaetzen. In 1898, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which he left ten years later. Hammer received the Prix de Rome in 1909.^[1]

Professional artist

Hammer produced his first type design, Hammer Uncial, in 1921. In 1922, he moved to Florence, Italy, where he set up a printing press. In 1929, he moved his printing operation into the Villa Santuccio in Florence and named it the Stamperia del Santuccio. The first book that was printed in this operation was Milton'sSamson Agonistes (1931), using what would be known as his Samson Uncial type. Punches for the t

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WHO WAS VICTOR HAMMER
ictor Karl Hammer, a Viennese society portraitist and painter of religious and mythological scenes, was also a print-maker who mastered the 17th-century art of the mezzotint, drew in silverpoint, worked as a sculptor, architect, maker of musical instruments, designer of uncial typefaces, printer, bookbinder, author, and teacher.
Hammer was trained at the Vienna Academy and afterwards shared a studio with the painter Richard Gerstl. Gerstl, after an affair with the wife of Arnold Schonberg, committed suicide, an event that perhaps caused Hammer to remain afterwards preoccupied with the theme of Christ and the adulteress, a biblical episode that he painted in five versions. Hammer was elected to the Vienna Secession in 1912, joining Gustav Klimt and others, but later withdrew to travel and pursue a more independent course.
He was encouraged to build clavichords by Albert Schweitzer, prepared a portrait bust of Hugo von Hofmannsthal for a monument in Salzburg, and made a mezzotint portrait of the musicologist Heinrich Schenker, among numerous other c