This Hagen Weise Violin is a Guarneri model made in Germany. The images show various features of the Guarneri pattern as well as the remarkable craftmanship of Hagen Weise.
Hagen Weise is a luthier born in Dresden. He started his apprenticeship in the late 1980s at Musima in East Germany. He was creating classical guitars ranging up to four hundred guitars per day. After that, Weise joined Roderisch Paesold Company in Bubenreuth, Germany in 1991 and switched to making violins. In 2004 Weise completed his Master's in violin making. Then he collaborated with a colleague who worked at Höfner Klaus Clement to start their own workshop. Since 2004 Hagen Weise dedicated himself to making fine violins and other instruments in his shop, producing 150 to 200 violins per day.
This Violin is made in Germany for Knilling (USA) prob. Bubenreuth in about 1970. Knilling Violins c/o was named after Johannes Knilling (1795 -1842), a famous German luthier in the 17th century.
This Vienna Style Violin is an Amati Copy believed to be made in Austria around 1910. Nicola Amati came from a family of luthiers who later became the most famous master luthier in their clan.
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