Joseph Ulrich Danhauser

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Joseph Ulrich Danhauser (born March 14, 1780 in Vienna ; † January 9, 1829 there ) was a furniture manufacturer on the Wieden near Vienna during the Biedermeier period .

biography

After training as a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts , Joseph Ulrich Danhauser founded the “Establishment for all objects of the Ameublement” in 1804, where he offered furniture, curtains, upholstery, carpets, bronze and glass items. The Palais Czernin (occasionally also called Palais Czernin-Althan) in the Favoritenstrasse served him as a production facility , the garden of which he largely sold as building land.

In the company's own workshop, where more than 100 people were already working around 1808, furniture, lamps, pipe, rifle and billiard cue racks, embroidery frames, stove umbrellas as well as pulpits and altars were manufactured according to their own designs.

The paste he developed , with which he was able to imitate bronze as an adornment for furniture and other furnishings , had great success . In 1812 the court chamber granted him the exclusive privilege to produce them.

Due to the great demand for his products, which offered a total solution for living space design, branches were set up in Graz and Budapest . In addition, customers could choose the furnishings for their apartments or houses from catalogs.

Seating set from Danhauser's furniture factory, around 1825/30, Vienna. (Place of issue: MAK Vienna )

Prominent addresses equipped with his products were the Palais Archduke Albrecht (today's Albertina ), the Weilburg in Baden, Laxenburg Castle near Vienna, the Geymüllerschlössel in Vienna and parts of the Graz Castle .

After the death of Josef Ulrich Danhauser, the factory was continued until 1838 by his son Josef Danhauser , born in 1805 , a painter and graphic artist. Their premises were later used by the Wiedner Spital .

Seating furniture made by Danhauser is shown in the permanent exhibition of the MAK Vienna . The MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection is in possession of the furniture factory's entire drawing estate (around 2,500 sheets), the holdings of which were digitized in 2008 and recorded in a database.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b biography at www.kunstmarkt.com , accessed on December 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ http://www.planet-vienna.com/spots/Palais/czernin/czernin.htm
  3. ↑ Example of a pair of candelabra made from the 'wood bronze' developed by Danhauser .
  4. ^ Angus Wilkie: Biedermeier. Elegance and grace of a new home decor at the beginning of the 19th century . DuMont, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-8067-2894-1 , p. 92.
  5. ↑ Entry about Geymüller-Schlössel on Burgen-Austria
  6. ^ Entry about Graz - Burg auf Burgen-Austria

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SURNAME Danhauser, Joseph Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur (furniture manufacturer)
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1829
Place of death Vienna