Rozet & Fischmeister
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| founding | 1770 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Franz Fischmeister |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.rozetundfischmeister.at |
Rozet & Fischmeister is a chamber jeweler in Vienna. The shop is located at Kohlmarkt 11 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . Rozet & Fischmeister offers its customers jewels, gold ware and table silver and also restores them.
history
The company was founded in 1770 by Nikolaus Rozet, a Huguenot who came to Vienna from France. His son Ignaz moved into the house "To the three runners" on Wiener Graben .
The silver coffee service "Alt Wien" is well-known, at that time a gift from the City of Vienna to Archduke Karl on the occasion of his victory over Napoleon as well as the travel necessaire of King Ferdinand VII of Spain around 1820. In 1836 Ignaz Franz Rozet was awarded the title of imperial court merchants by the Kaiser . Rozet took the gold and silver worker Franz Karl Fischmeister (1820–1902) into his business. In addition to traditional haberdashery items, medals were also made. Franz Karl Fischmeister's son, Gustav Fischmeister († 1938), worked for the French artist René Lalique . He brought the technique of making crystal buttons from France to Vienna.
Johann Rozet was from the third generation, after his death in 1872 the Fischmeister family completely took over the company, as the now noble Rozet nobles from Brühlwalde turned to civil service.
Franz Ignaz Fischmeister (1848–1922) initiated the company's rise. For his services he was appointed imperial councilor by the emperor. Rozet & Fischmeister then became the imperial and royal court gold, silver and jewelery manufacturer , Archduke Eugen and Archduke Peter Ferdinand and, from 1913, chamber supplier to the emperor .
Rozet & Fischmeister worked with the Vienna Secession and the French artist René Lalique . Another branch was opened in Karlsbad in 1911, but it had to be closed in 1934 after the collapse of the monarchy and the importation of high tariffs at the new border. The store on Kohlmarkt was set up by Portois & Fix , also an imperial and royal purveyor, based on the treasury .
During the First World War, Rozet & Fischmeister supported the army with generous war loans. After the war, the company was on the verge of ruin, but was able to recover. During the Second World War, the owner Franz Marie Fischmeister (1905–1959) had to go to war. His aunt Berta Fischmeister ran the business and had wire frames made for the Wehrmacht. The company was thus classified as vital to the war effort and was spared from being closed.
Today's customers are still the aristocracy, but also industrialists and the upper class. The heiress of the Klimt pictures, Maria Altmann, described in the 2006 documentary "The Klimt Affair" how her wedding ring came from Rozet & Fischmeister.
Rozet & Fish Master also produced the signet (Seal) for the signing of the Austrian State Treaty by Leopold Figl 1955. It was a gift from the company for the country.
Franz Fischmeister died after the war. His aunt Berta Fischmeister ran the business again from 1959 to 1975, after which her nephew Georg, who learned his trade at the goldsmith Karl Nowy & Sons, took over. Georg Fischmeister handed the business over to his son Franz in 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Haase, Alexandra Kropf: Where the customer is still Kaiser. (No longer available online.) Wirtschaftsblatt, June 15, 1996, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 2, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
literature
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK purveyors to Vienna's court . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 104-107.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '30.4 " N , 16 ° 22' 2.4" E