François Linke
François Linke, Franz Linke ( born June 17, 1855 in German Pancrazio, today Jítrava in Northern Bohemia, Empire of Austria, now Czech Republic, † May 30, 1946 in Paris) was a French cabinetmaker.
François Linke is regarded as the greatest Parisian cabinetmaker in the time of the late 19th and early 20th century. The main sources of his works are the furniture of the French Rococo and Classicism during the reign of Louis XV. and Louis XVI ..
Life
Franz Linke was born as the second of eleven children in the village of German Pancrazio near German fork Německé Jablonné, today Jablonné v Podještědí by Maria left. His father Albert worked as his Uncle Martin as a stonemason. From 1861 he attended the school in the village, which was marked Catholic and German. 1867 at the age of twelve years, ended his school days.
Training
1868 at the age of 13 years Left Franz began an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker in a workshop in nearby Reichenberg. During this time he also learned the Czech language. After the completion of the four -year apprenticeship he worked until 1874 as a carpenter 's assistant.
Travels
Between 1872 and 1874 he worked as a carpenter 's assistant three months in Prague and two and a half years in Vienna. There he worked as an assistant in a cabinet making, which belonged to the guild, active. Through the Vienna Guild Franz Linke received enrolling as a journeyman. From Vienna he traveled to Budapest in 1875 and returned back to Bohemia.
After the exemption from military service left left Austria -Hungary and emigrated in 1875 on the Saxon Switzerland to Dresden and from the Electorate of Saxony from further about Weimar in Thuringia and Upper Hesse and the Rhine Hessen up to Mainz. The end of 1875 he left Germany and emigrated to Paris, which he reached the age of twenty- turn of the year 1875. It is believed that left was his first job at a native of Germany Joseph -Emmanuel Zwiener ébéniste. Zwiener was a master and possessed contrary to the Arrived left on a workshop and the necessary tools.
By the six-month time limit of passport for Fremdgeschriebe until the age of 23 years, Francis left was forced back into German fork to register with the police. Left got this obligation by the end of 1876, respectively, middle and end in 1877. From 1877 he worked again in Reichenberg in his old teacher, the furniture Phonetic Franz Neumann. He made at the age of 22 years, but during the ten months in Reichenberg, his masterpiece was so still not a master of the guild. In October 1877 he reached Paris. It seems that left had already made his decision during previous stays, permanently to work in one of the approximately 900 Parisian workshops and remain as an immigrant in France.
From 1875 onwards moved François Linke in the rue du Faubourg -Saint- Antoine, the traditional neighborhood of cabinet makers in Paris,.
Own workshop in Paris
Opened in 1881, left in the rue du Faubourg -Saint -Antoine 170 own workshop. In the products of his workshop he took on the style of the 18th century and adapted them to the taste of his time. With the award of a gold medal for a "grand bureau" at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, he established himself definitely as one of the leading cabinetmaker of his era. He founded a showroom on the Place de Vendôme and experienced an up to the Second World War continued success.
Working
- Left Sofa, No. 1410