Johann Baptist Schweitzer

Violin maker
(1790 – 1865)

Johann Baptist Schweitzer was a pupil of F. Geissenhof in Vienna. He became active in Pecs from 1822 and established himself in Budapest by the following year. Like Pressenda in Turin, he was one of the first makers to adopt the Stradivari model over the Stainer and to attempt a closer emulation of the Cremonese masters. His influence extended to the work of all the central European and German schools ...Read More in the nineteenth century, which resulted in numerous fakes being produced in the larger German workshops. His pupils and assistants included many important makers of the subsequent generation: G. Lemböck, A. Sitt, J. B. Dvorák, S. Nemessanyi, and his eventual successor T. Zach. He produced very fine work on all the classical Italian models, also utilizing that of his master, F. Geissenhof. He crafted magnificent cellos, some based on a Serafin model. His interior work was quite distinctive, featuring hardwood linings spliced into the blocks with short, tapering joints. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $58,121 in Jun 2008, for a cello.
- 15 auction price results.

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