Heinrich Pössenbacher
Heinrich Anton Josef Pössenbacher (born May 3, 1877 in Munich ; † August 10, 1959 ) was a leading German furniture manufacturer.
Life
The son of the court carpenter and court furniture manufacturer Anton Pössenbacher attended the Technical University of Munich and then stayed for a long time in England . He then brought the architect John Archibald Campbell (1878–1947) from Campbell & Pullich GmbH to Munich and, together with his father and Campbell, founded the exhibition house on Brienner Strasse and the Odeons Casino .
In 1902 Heinrich Pössenbacher took over the Munich factory for luxury furniture from his father, which he enlarged in 1927 by building a machine hall and a workshop for it. Among other things, he carried out fine work for ship furnishings, designed country house furnishings and a castle furnishings in the Rhineland .
It was not the direct destruction of the Second World War that led to the end of the traditional company. Although parts of the factory and the whole wood store were destroyed by bombs, everything was completely rebuilt. But the breakdown of important markets in the luxury equipment sector, the progressive series production and the increase in craft businesses melted profits, so that Heinrich Pössenbacher and his participating sons Fritz and Otto decided to sell the complex at Jahnstraße 45 to the Elektrotechnische Fabrik Alois Zettler GmbH in 1951.
In 1935 Heinrich Pössenbacher built a stylish country house in Berg am Starnberger See according to his own plans.
His fathers-in-law were the Munich contractor Jakob Heilmann and the Cologne manufacturer Ferdinand Mülhens .
Honors
- 1930 Gold commemorative medal from the Danner Foundation for outstanding achievements in the cabinet-making industry
literature
- Hans Ottomeyer : A secret designer. Hans Jehly and Anton Pössenbacher . In: Furniture History Journal , Vol. 17 (1991), pp. 149-157, ISSN 0016-3058
- Hans Ottomeyer: Furniture of Neoclassicism and New Objectivity . Catalog of the furniture collection of the Munich City Museum . Prestel, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7913-1287-1 .
- Afra Schick: Furniture for the fairy tale king. Ludwig II and the Munich court carpenter Anton Pössenbacher . Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-89790-186-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Ottomeyer: Furniture of Neoclassicism and the New Objectivity, p. 55ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pössenbacher, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pössenbacher, Heinrich Anton Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German furniture manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1959 |