Johann Ulrich Eberle

Johann (also Jan) Ulrich Eberle (born July 2, 1699 in Vils , Tyrol, † July 2, 1768 in Prague ) was an Austrian instrument maker living in Prague .

Life

On July 2, 1699, Johann Ulrich Eberle was baptized as the son of Sebastian Eberle and Ursula Schonger. Katharina Erdt, née Wörle, acted as godmother. He had six siblings. Vils had a tradition as a violin-making town and is not far from Füssen , the cradle of lute making . His journeyman journey took him to Prague around 1720, where he worked in the workshop of Thomas III. Edlinger, the father of the Prague violin making school, worked as an assistant. Eberle soon ran an independent workshop and was granted citizenship in Prague on February 20, 1726 . On May 4, 1727 he married Klara Jordin, with whom he had nine children. In 1736 the family bought a house at Konviktsgasse 296 in Prague, which also became the seat of the workshop. His son Wenzel Michael Joseph Vincenz Eberle also became a violin maker. His most important students were Carolus Joseph Hellmer and Thomas Hulinzky. Eberle died in Prague on July 2, 1768 .

Instruments

Ceiling of a violin by Johann Ulrich Eberle (1763) in the Museum of the City of Vils.

Eberle was not only known for his violins , but above all for his violen d'amore . He copied some violins based on a model by Jacob Stainer from Absam . A violin from 1760 is based on an instrument by Antonio Stradivari . The following instruments have been preserved (selection):

• 2 violen d'amore (1731 and 1749) in Ossegg Abbey
• Viola (1739) in the collegiate church Braunau / Böhmen
• 3 violins (1739, 1753, 1760) in the Princely Lobkowitz collection at Raudnitz Castle
• Tenor viola da gamba (1740) in the National Museum in Prague
• Viola d'amore (1743) in the Music History Museum Heyer (Cologne)
• English violet in the National Museum Prague
• five-string alto viola (1749) in the Leipzig Musical Instrument Museum
• 5 violins (1749, 1758, 1763, 1767, 1768) in the Strahov Monastery in Prague
• Double bass (1753) in   Komotau (church choir)
• Viola d'amore in the Czech Musical Instrument Museum in Prague
• Viola d'amore (1763) in the Gothenburg Museum
• Violin (1763) in the Museum of the City of Vils

literature

• Richard Bletschacher: The lute and violin maker of the Füssener Land , Hofheim am Taunus ² 1991.
• Walter Hamma: Violin maker of the German school from the 17th to 19th centuries , Tutzing 1992.
• Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider: The lute and violin makers from Ausserfern - masters of violin making in Europe , in: Gert Amman (ed.): Tiroler Schwaben in Europa. Artist dealer craftsman (exhibition catalog Reutte 1989), Innsbruck 1989, pp. 358–373.
• Adolf Layer: The Allgäu lute and violin makers , Augsburg 1978.
• Reinhold Schrettl: Even before Cremona and Mittenwald. Violin making in Vils, in: Bader, Rupert (ed.): Worn through centuries. 600 years of the parish of Vils, Vils 1994, pp. 203–206.
• Klaus Wankmiller: Instrument maker from Ausserfern, in: Ernst Hornstein (Hg.): Von Tuten und Blasen (no idea ...). musical Ausserfern !, (booklet accompanying the exhibition of the Museum Association of the Reutte District 2012), Reutte 2012, pp. 8-10.
• Kathrin Wankmiller: Reasons for the emigration of the Ausserfern violin makers in the 17th and early 18th centuries using the example of the Vilser violin maker Johann Ulrich Eberle, in: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District 9 (2014), pp. 137–154.
• Christian Fastl: Eberle family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wankmiller (2014), pp. 141–143.
2. ↑ Wankmiller (2014), p. 145.
3. ↑ Wankmiller (2014), pp. 143–148, with a detailed catalog raisonné.