Furniture art in the Bern area
This article deals with the development of furniture art in the Bern area .
Medieval furniture art in the Bernese area is shaped by Burgundy and southern Germany. Special forms of furniture and recognizable style elements can only be identified in the late Renaissance. The most important works of the 17th century, such as the pretzel room in Toffen Castle , the caryatid room from House Kramgasse 6 in Bern, the splendid buffet at Landshut Castle and the Täferstube in Burgdorf's Fankhauserhaus, are all works by German masters or traveling companions.
In the 18th century, thanks to the brothers Mathäus Funk and Johann Friedrich Funk , Bern brought furniture art to a particularly high boom. The Funk'schen Werkstätte had a charisma that reached as far as Alsace and Stuttgart. Towards the end of the century, Johannes Äbersold , who came from the Emmental, and Christoph Hopfengärtner from Stuttgart produced elegant furniture for the upper classes. Hopfengärtner produced furniture in large series and worked until 1843. Carl Franz Hossfeld was the last cabinet maker in Bern who made furniture for the highest demands by hand. At the end of the 19th century, the Wetli manufactory in the city of Bern produced sophisticated bourgeois furniture. For the 20th century there is only one name to be mentioned for Bern: USM Haller .
Museums and collections
literature
- Hermann von Fischer : The Funk family of craftsmen in the 18th century in Bern. (Swiss homeland books), Bern 1961.
- Hermann von Fischer, Werner Bucher: Bernese furniture of classicism by Christoph Hopfengärtner and contemporaries. Valentin Sonnenschein (catalog for the exhibition). Jegenstorf 1986.
- Hermann von Fischer: Johannes Äbersold (1737–1812). A Bernese leveler between Mathäus Funk and Christoph Hopfengärtner. Jegenstorf Castle Foundation, Jegenstorf 2000 (exhibition catalog).
- Hermann von Fischer: FONCK A BERNE. Furniture and equipment from the Funk family of craftsmen in the 18th century in Bern , Bern 2002.
- Heinz and Elisabeth Hauser: Carl Hossfeld - the leading Bernese cabinet maker of the late Biedermeier , Schwarzenburg online (PDF; 936 kB)
- Manuel Kehrli and Monika Bürger: Bernese writing furniture of the 18th century (catalog for the exhibition). Jegenstorf 2008.
- Manuel Kehrli: Furniture and interior fittings of the Grande Société from 1766 to 1834 , in: Georg von Erlach ea (ed.): Hôtel de Musique and Grande Société in Bern 1759-2009, Bern 2009, pp. 169–210.
- Toni P. Labhart, Manuel Kehrli: Chimneys made of Bernese marble. Jegenstorf Castle Foundation, 2003.
- Thomas Lörtscher: "Between funk and hop gardener?" Late baroque after 1800. A Bernese small chest of drawers as "objet sentimental" , in: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History (1999), pp. 303-320. doi : 10.5169 / seals-169576
