Josef Bohumil Herclík

Josef Bohumil Herclík (born April 8, 1903 in Staré Benátky , † September 17, 1987 in Mladá Boleslav ) was a Czech violin maker.

Life

The son of the violin maker František Herclík , whose brother Ladislav Herclík practiced the same profession, learned the craft from 1917 to 1919 from his father. He then attended the violin making school in Schönbach from 1919 to 1921 . From 1912 to 1923 he worked as a journeyman with Otakar Špidlen in Prague. In 1924 he returned to Mladá Boleslav and ran his father's workshop. Just a year later, he went into business for himself and employed his father. In the Second World War he joined the resistance movement and was imprisoned by the Gestapo in Theresienstadt . After the war he continued to run his company and trained Jiří Mrkvička and his son Přemysl Herclík , among others .

In addition to violin making, he also devoted himself to music. He played the violin and viola d'amore in the Jungbunzlau Philharmonic and took part in several international music competitions. He was a founding member of the circle of artificial violin makers.

He made numerous models based on models by Antonio Stradivari , Guarneri , Emanuel Adam Homolka and Jan Kulík . He also made some viola d'amore, baroque lutes and hook harps and restored old instruments.

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SURNAME	Herclík, Josef Bohumil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech violin maker
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Staré Benátky
DATE OF DEATH	17th September 1987
Place of death	Mladá Boleslav