Ferdinand Piatnik
Ferdinand Piatnik (born October 14, 1819 in Ofen , † July 20, 1885 in Bad Vöslau ) was an Austro-Hungarian card painter and founder of the Viennese playing card factory Ferd. Piatnik & Sons .
biography
Piatnik completed an apprenticeship with the playing card maker Johann Gravatz in Ofen (now Budapest) and passed the journeyman's examination in Pressburg in 1839 . He came to Vienna through the Walz and began to work in Anton Moser's (1784–1842) card-making workshop. After Anton Moser's death, he took over the business and married the widow. From 1843 the company operated under Ferdinand Piatnik .
Piatnik developed playing card motifs such as the Viennese vedute tarot with street scenes and views from the third quarter of the 19th century and the so-called “double Germans” with mirror images of half-figures from Schiller's “ Wilhelm Tell ”, which were very successful. From 1882 onwards, he involved his two older sons Ferdinand (1857–1930) and Adolf (1859–1940) in the business and renamed the company “Ferdinand Piatnik & Sons”.
literature
- J. Mentschl: Piatnik, Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 48.
- Josef Mentschl: Piatnik, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 405 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ferdinand Piatnik in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Playing card company Piatnik in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Eva Offenthaler: Put on the right card: the playing card manufacturer Ferdinand Piatnik I - biography of the month on the homepage of the Austrian Biographical Lexicon (July 2015) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spielemuseum.at: 175 years of Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB); Retrieved April 16, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piatnik, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian map painter and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | oven |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1885 |
| Place of death | Bad Vöslau |