Fine Czechs violin by Ferdinand August Vincent Homolka, Prague 1860

A wonderful and fantastically preserved violin by Ferdinand August Vincent Homolka, built in Prague in 1860. It is really a very beautiful example of this outstanding master, and it is not for nothing that he earned the nickname Prague Stradivarius. This fantastic violin maker was born in Velvary in 1828 and died in Prague in 1890. He was the son of Emanuel Adam Homolka and his wife Josepha.Wh was the student of his father, his teaching letter is dated November 21 Nov. 1844. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked in Znojmo with Josef Kratschmann in 1845 then with Franz Schmidt in Vienna, Josef Barchanek in Sopron. In 1847 with Johann Fitsch in Linz and from the 1.5.1847 - to 20.2.1848 with Franz Lehner and Johann Stoß in Prague. His life goes on, 1848 he worked for his uncle Ferdinand Josef Homolka in Kuttenberg 1853 for Jan Baptist Dvorak in Prague and Anton Fischer in Vienna.

His works are valued for the noble sound and beautiful workmanship. This violin has a nicely flamed one-piece maple back with a very nice red-brown varnish on an old gold-yellow ground.

Price : 12.000-25.000€

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