Eugène Sartory

Eugène Nicolas Sartory ( born September 22, 1871 in Mirecourt, † March 5, 1946 in Paris) was a French bow makers, and is considered one of the foremost representatives of his craft in the 20th century.

Biography

Eugène Sartory was born on 22 September 1871 in the French violin-making town Mirecourt. He comes from a widely branched Mirecourter family, which included many violin makers. The Craft of Bogenbauens he learned from his father, but switched early to Paris, where he worked for Charles and Joseph Alfred Lamy Père Peccatte. In 1893 he opened his own workshop, which had quickly made ​​great progress. Among his students and colleagues, there are big names of the string bow making as Morizot Louis and Louis H. Gillet, whose own work was strongly influenced by Sartory. On April 1, 1899 he married Josephine Alice in Mirecourt Jacquet (* April 16, 1882, † 1935), the daughter of the famous Mirecourter luthier Gabriel Jacquet ( " Jacquet - Gand "); 1905, the daughter Reine Gabrielle was born, who married the luthier Georges Dupuy and died in Paris on November 8, 1998. ( † March 16, 1974 born May 27, 1891) married his second wife Sartory was with Emilie Josephine Sartory. He died on March 5, 1946 in Paris.

Work

Sartory further developed the sheet models by Francois Nicolas Voirin and Pere Lamy, especially by increasing the shaft. Sartory bows are thus examples of the tendency to more severe bends in the modern bow making. Around 1905, the Sartory model was fully developed, especially the characteristic extended and compact head shape. Sartory put forth his bows from pernambuco wood, usually with a round rod cross-section. He used dark wood In the early phase of his work, his later arcs, however, are brighter and built with even larger diameters. Many Sartory bows are luxuriously equipped, with silver and gold outfit, tortoiseshell and lizard skin. Sartory used the stamp " E. Sartory A PARIS ".

Sartory's importance for the modern bow making is not about a fundamental advancement or revolutionizing the modern, developed by François Xavier Tourte violin bow. His bows have become famous rather than perfected, well-balanced products and over its entire creative life out of consistently high quality. Even at Sartory's lifetime, his arches were very popular and were copied and counterfeited since the 1920s. True copies are sought after today and are often traded at prices in the five-digit euro range.

Honors and Awards

Eugène Sartory was " Officier d' Académie " Paris and won numerous prizes and awards at exhibitions and competitions: