Pianofortefabrik Gerhard Adam Wesel
The Pianofortefabrik Gerhard Adam Wesel was a piano manufacturer in Wesel in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
In 1828 the carpenter journeyman Gerhard Adam (born April 5, 1797 in Wesel; † 1879) founded a factory for pianos after stops in Stuttgart and Vienna and in 1828 in Wesel . With around 40 to 60 employees, it manufactured around 190 instruments a year, some of which were exported to America. The annual average production was put at around 100 in the years 1864–1874, around 250 in 1880–1882 and around 500 instruments in 1900–1902.
After a fire in the factory on Kaldenberg Street in 1880, Adam had to erect some new buildings. As a result of the global economic crisis , the Adam company also suffered considerable financial losses and had to part with all properties with the exception of the Duisburg house. After the cessation of instrument production in 1930, the Duisburg house was destroyed in the Second World War. " The Gerhard Adam company in Wesel had completed 28,000 instruments in 1928."
In the publication for trade and industry of 1853 it says about Adam's piano factory:
“From home with no fortune, Adam has acquired the means through his own activity and diligence, which are necessary for a direct relationship with the best material and years of storage. In this way he has gradually turned his factory into a real art workshop, the products of which can increasingly be placed alongside the best from abroad, indeed, many of them surpass them in terms of the solidity of the work and durability. "
Awards
- Gerhard Adam received the first class silver medal at the Paris exhibition in 1855 for a concert grand piano, a pianino and a square piano . At that time he was the only exhibitor from Prussia to receive the award of the first class medal. His instruments have now been fully recognized again by the international jury at the London exhibition.
- 1857 silver medal to Gerhard Adam (Wesel, pianos). The list of Prussian exhibitors says, among other things: The concert grand piano from Gerhard Adam's pianoforte factory in Wesel, a real splendid instrument in terms of sound and workmanship, was a brilliant testimony to the enormous progress that the Rhenish arts and crafts industry made to its French and English competitors has made opposite.
literature
- V. Kocks: The Gerhard Adam piano factory in Wesel , in: Messages from the Diersfordt Castle Archives and from the Lower Rhine, Vol. 4, Wesel 1993
Web links
- Pianos and grand pianos from the Wupperthale instrument making in the Wupper region and on the Lower Rhine during the 19th century , page 598ff (PDF file; 3.05 MB)
swell
- Archive for Regional Studies of the Prussian Monarchy Volume 4
- Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists, Cologne, Volume 10, 1862
- Niederrheinische Musik Zeitung for art lovers and artists, Cologne, Volume 12
- German Trade Archive weekly for trade, commerce and transport companies (Reich Ministry), year 1855
Individual evidence
- ^ Prussian statistics
- ↑ http://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-285/d020002.pdf
- ↑ Pianos and grand pianos from the Wupperthale, page 604 , by Florian Speer
- ↑ Handels-Archiv: Wochenschrift für Handel, Gewerbe and Verkehrsanstalten , Prussian Ministry for Trade, Commerce and Public Works, 1853, page 194
- ^ Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists, Volume 10 Cologne 1862.
- ↑ Archive for Regional Studies Fourth Quarter of 1857 Directory of the Prussian exhibitors awarded in the XXVII class.
- ↑ page 193/194