Christoph Hopfengärtner
Christoph Hopfengärtner (baptized July 21, 1758 in Stuttgart ; † 1843 in Bern ; resident in Niederhofen bei Rued ) was a Swiss cabinet maker .
Life
The son of the Stuttgart court carpenter Christoph Hopfengärtner came from the ducal-Württemberg residence city of Stuttgart . His uncle and godfather Johann Georg Hopfengärtner was the personal physician of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg . So far nothing has been known about his training. He married Maria Oesch (before 1785), who gave him three daughters. In 1788 he was able to settle in Bern as Franz Abraham Isenschmid's journeyman master craftsman, and in 1790 achieved the title of master craftsman here. With his masterpiece he created one of the most fascinating pieces of furniture made in Bern. The precision of the inlays cannot be beaten. He later created a bureau à cylindre with an accompanying chest of drawers of the same quality . The mechanical cylinder bureau was an invention of the French court courtier Jean-François Oeben , which spread throughout Europe. Hop growers ran a productive, profitable and qualitatively remarkable furniture factory in Bern . After Mathäus Funk and Johannes Äbersold, he was the last great cabinet maker of the Ancien Régime in Bern.
His eldest daughter was married to the Lenzburg bookbinder Heinrich Halder. Hop grower planned to hand over the business to his grandson Christoph Halder (1806–1854). At the latest in this context he was in contact with the Lenzburg cabinet maker Gottfried Hämmerli, who was a son of the cabinet maker Samuel Hämmerli .
The most important collection of works by Christoph Hopfengärtner is located in Jegenstorf Castle near Bern.
literature
- Hermann von Fischer : Living Culture in Old Bern from the 17th to the 19th Century in Jegenstorf Castle , Bern 1959.
- Hermann von Fischer, Werner Bucher: Bernese furniture of classicism by Christoph Hopfengärtner and contemporaries. Valentin Sonnenschein (catalog for the exhibition). Jegenstorf 1986.
- Manuel Kehrli and Monika Bürger: Bernese writing furniture of the 18th century (catalog for the exhibition). Jegenstorf 2008.
- Dominique Mouret, Ariane Maradan: Une exceptionnelle pendule neuchâteloise Directoire, œuvre des maîtres Isaac Favre et Christoph Hopfengärtner . In: Chronométrophilia, 2011, No. 69, pp. 65-71.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fischer 1959, p. 208.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hop grower, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss leveler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized July 21, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1843 |
| Place of death | Bern |