Ladislaus Baczynski

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Born in Łodygowice near Żywiec in 1866, Władysław Piotr (Ladislaus) Baczyński was first employed as a clerk in the Billing Deparment of the Imperial Royal Railway in Kraków in 1887. He started learning violin-making in 1894 with Gustav Häussler in Kraków, before collaborating with Henry Richard Knopf in New York from 1904 to 1906. He then ran a workshop in Lviv.

In 1910 he joined ...Read More the Association of Violin Makers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Vienna, and from 1913, the Association of German Violin Makers in Berlin. His master's qualifications for the production, reconstruction, repair and tuning of string instruments were confirmed in independent Poland on June 14, 1922.
Baczyński was awarded the first prize and gold medal for musical instruments he exhibited at the international exhibition in Budapest in 1912.


His works consists of 283 string instruments, including at least 11 violas and probably 6-8 cellos. His concert violins were mainly modelled on the works of Stradivari, Guarneri „del Gesù” and Nicolò Amati, but we know one violin from 1910 inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. Special attention is paid to the precise workmanship and intricately carved delicate scroll. Each work has a handwritten label that includes an individual number (Opus), year and place of completion and the signature of Ladislaus Baczyński (only a few say Władysław Baczyński). Some also have a small brand to the inside, WŁADYSŁAW BACZYŃSKI. Read Less

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