Werner & Winter

Georg Wilhelm Winter (1844–1900)
and
Friedrich (Fritz) Winter (1878-1917) artists and lithographers

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Anstalt von Werner & Winter was a renowned German printing firm in Frankfurt am Main, first listed in 1871, founded by Georg Wilhelm Winter, with assistance from a Werner partner. After Georg's death in 1900, the firm was run by his son Fritz Winter.

The firm became famous for Chromolithography (multicolor lithographic printing) They specialised in scientific plates for zoology, ichthyology, entomology, and botany.

They were employed by a number of entomologists to draw, engrave, and print the illustrations in their multi-volume theses, including :

Georg Semper in his work Die Schmetterlinge der Philippinischen Inseln, and

Embrik Strand and Adalbert Seitz in their work The Macrolepidoptera of the World.

Prints by Werner & Winter in these webpages:

Spodoptera picta
Chaetocneme critomedia
Symbrenthia geoffroyi
Geitoneura klugii

Maruca vitrata
Pollanisus viridipulverulenta