Johann Heinrich Hartmann (carpenter)

Johann Heinrich Hartmann (March 1, 1828 ; † 1908 ) was a Swiss carpenter .

life and work

Johann Heinrich Hartmann grew up in Basel and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He spent his journeyman time in Paris, among other places . In 1854 he founded a furniture company in Basel, which was closed again a year after his death. In 1887/88 he was the first president of the Association of Swiss Master Carpenters and Furniture Manufacturers (VSSM).

1878–1882 he created a replica of the council table of Johann Christian Frisch , which he showed in 1883 at the national exhibition in Zurich. In 1964 the table was bought by the canton of Basel-Stadt and has been in the town hall in the anteroom of the government council since then. Further works by Hartmann are in private hands.

literature

• Stefan Hess : The «Basel Council Table» by Johann Christian Frisch. Basler Kostbarkeiten 28, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523034-5-0 .
• Dieter Pfister , Sabine Häberli, Astrid Kübli: Basler Möbelkunst from 1450 to 1950. Schwabe, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7965-1893-1 .
• Max Welti: Well-known characters in the history of the VSSM, Zurich 1947, pp. 9–11.