Bernhard Hieronymus Ludwig

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Bernhard Ludwig ( Ignaz Eigner , 1888)

Bernhard Hieronymus Ludwig (born March 2, 1834 in Mülsen St. Jacob ; † September 12, 1897 in Vienna ) was an Austrian furniture manufacturer and court cabinet maker .

biography

Bernhard Hieronymus Ludwig learned the carpentry trade from his father and after his acquittal went on a journey as a journeyman in July 1851 . In 1855 he made his masterpiece and then went to Vienna as a carpenter's assistant and foreman. In 1862 he took the oath of subjects and opened a commercial drawing school for carpenters, upholsterers and sculptors at Gumpendorfer Straße 117 in the 6th district. Several owners of Viennese, Budapest and Prague carpentry firms that later became famous received their training there. At the same time, he published furniture templates for his professional colleagues. He received several orders to work out designs for residential furnishings in palaces and castles, provided the final drawings and was ultimately entrusted with overseeing the execution.

In 1865, Ludwig founded his own company in addition to the drawing school. In 1870 he received the Great Golden Medal for his exhibition in Graz. In 1871 he founded a branch factory in Suben in Upper Austria, which was later closed. In 1873 he took part in the world exhibition in Vienna with the upholsterer Anton Fix , where he received an honorary diploma. In 1877 he moved his business to Münzwardeingasse 2 in the 6th district, the architect of the factory and residential building, which is now a listed building, was Carl Langhammer .

Using a special impregnation process, Ludwig succeeded in making the beech wood, which had previously been used as fuel, also usable for building purposes. In the 1880s he was already able to produce perfect home furnishings out of beech wood, which was noted in specialist circles. Ludwig was involved in the construction of several monumental buildings in Vienna.

At that time he was already a kk court cabinet maker. He successfully participated in the electrical exhibition and demonstrated the electrical arson he had invented. He later replaced this technology for the furniture with a "fire technology" that he had invented and which attracted attention in 1888 at the anniversary exhibition of the Austrian Trade Association .

In 1893 he acquired a piece of land between today's Färbermühlgasse and the Südbahn near the Liesing train station to expand his business , in order to build a second larger factory there, which he did not see to be completed, but was completed by his son Bernhard Ludwig in 1898 .

Ludwig retired in 1896 for health reasons and handed over management of the company to his son Bernhard Ludwig. He died on the evening of September 12, 1897 at the age of 64, leaving behind two sons and three daughters. He was buried in the family cemetery in the Kalksburg local cemetery.

His company was known nationwide and internationally. For his merits and because of the quality of his work, he was appointed royal Romanian court cabinet maker in 1878 in addition to being the kk purveyor to the court. He was also a knight of the Franz Joseph Order .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The object can still be seen including the chimney on the aerial photographs from 1938 and 1956 in the geodata viewer of the City of Vienna; also Anton Matzig: History of the city of Liesing. Manuscript 1935ff., Vienna City and State Archives . Copy ed. by Josef Ehn, 1952, Liesing District Museum . Vol. 2, pp. 440, 445, 473, 488
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Bernhard Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Furniture manufacturer and cabinet maker
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülsen St. Jacob St. Jacob
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1897
Place of death Vienna