Wilhelm Brückner (luthier)
Wilhelm Brückner (born 30 September 1932 in Erfurt) is an East German violin maker. Life and work In 1960 Wilhelm Brückner took over the violin making company, which had been founded in Erfurt in 1897 by his grandfather of the same name (also Wilhelm Brückner). Before Wilhelm Brückner the Elder (1874 to 1925 – from a traditional Vogtland violin making dynasty) settled in Erfurt, he had received training from the violin makers Giuseppe Fiorini and Alfred Stelzner, on which his descendants (now in the fifth generation) could build. Wilhelm Brückner received the master craftsman's certificate in 1956. His masterpiece was a viola.Menzel, Ruth: “Five generations of Brückner in musical instrument making”, Stadt und Geschichte 1/2012 p. 16 f. The viola building was then also the main focus of his further professional activity. In the following years he developed into an outstanding violin maker in the East Germany, GDR and the Eastern Bloc. In 1972 he won the gold medal i ...
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