Heinrich Knirr was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in what is today the town of Pančevo, Serbia. Knirr studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Academy of Arts in Munich. It was in Munich where he opened a private art school in 1888 that became noted in Europe. The expressionist artist Paul Klee was one of his students. Owing to the period in which he lived, Knirr was a member o...

Carl Werner was a supplier of propaganda material for the German government during World War II. It was located in Reichenbach, a town in the Vogtland district of Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1889 as a printing shop with a stationery business, in 1919 Werner's sons took it over but continued to run it under the Carl Werner name. In 1929 the company built a large offset printing plant in Reichenbach with a publishing house attached. By 1939, over 1,500 employees ...