Wolfgang Loescher

Wolfgang Loescher (* 1967 in Krefeld ) is a German furniture restorer and historian.

Wolfgang Loescher completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1988–1991 and then worked in furniture construction. 1992–1996 he completed a restoration training at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . He also studied history , art history and monument preservation in Erlangen and Bamberg (MA) from 1992–1998 . 1996–2003 he was a furniture restorer at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, a position that he has held since 2003 at the Basel Historical Museum .

Wolfgang Loescher published fundamental works on the history of the carpentry trade, especially in the early modern period.

Fonts (selection)

• A “Boulle” piece of furniture by Ferdinand Plitzner. Attribution using construction and Boulle technique details. In: Restauro . Vol. 103, No. 7, 1997, pp. 454-459.
• Changes in the Augsburg Kistler trade due to overseas imports in the late 16th and 17th centuries. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia. Vol. 92, 1999, ISSN  0342-3131 , pp. 55-73.
• with Stefan Hess : Furniture in Basel. Masterpieces and masterpiece orders up to 1798. With a list of professional carpenters and wood sculptors (= writings of the Basel Historical Museum. 16). Historisches Museum Basel, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523034-4-3 .
• Between the Fürstenhof and the guild society. The Basel cabinet maker, margravial master builder and court carpenter Johannes Tschudy (1672–1736). In: Historical Museum. Basel. Annual report. 2007, ISSN  1013-6959 , pp. 13-25.
• with Stefan Hess: Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798 (= writings of the Historisches Museum Basel. 18). Historisches Museum Basel, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1 .
• with Sabine Söll-Tauchert: A courtly piece of furniture in bourgeois Basel? The cabinet desk for the Obervogt von Münchenstein - a newly discovered early work by Johannes Tschudy. In: Historical Museum. Basel. Annual report. 2009, pp. 45-61.
• The art cabinet from the Faesch Museum. Collecting and piety around 1620 (= Basel treasures. 33). Historisches Museum Basel, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-9523739-6-5 .
• with Stefan Hess: The "masterpiece dimensions" of the Basel carpenters. In: Measure and Weight. No. 104, 2012, ISSN  0933-4246 , pp. 2591-2600.
• with Stefan Hess: world class in Liestal. Die Kunstschreinerei Bieder (= sources and research on the history and regional studies of the canton of Basel-Landschaft , vol. 98). Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, Liestal 2016, ISBN 978-3-85673-291-2 .

Web links

• Information about Wolfgang Loescher on the website of the Historisches Museum Basel ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).