author
Georg Fritz
b. 1851
Best known for a practical late-19th-century guide to photo-lithography, this Austrian printing expert wrote for working craftsmen as much as for technical readers. His book captures a moment when photography was rapidly changing the graphic arts.
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Photo-Lithography
by Georg Fritz
About the author
Born in 1851, Georg Fritz is identified in library and Project Gutenberg records as the author of Photo-Lithography, published in English in 1895. The book presents him as vice-director of the Court and Imperial State Printing Works in Vienna, suggesting a career rooted in high-level printing practice rather than purely academic theory.
In the preface to Photo-Lithography, he explains that he wrote from experience and aimed to help practical workers use the process more effectively. That hands-on approach still shapes his reputation today: the book is remembered as a clear technical guide to photo-lithography and its uses in printing and image reproduction.
Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year and professional role are hard to confirm from the sources found here, so it is safest to view him as a specialist author whose surviving legacy rests chiefly on this influential manual from the world of Vienna printing.