KLOTZ, JOSEPH (1)
Known as Joseph Thomas and Joseph, senior. Born 1743. Died after 1809. Worked at Mittenwald. Son and pupil of Sebastian. One of the cleverest of this family, but work unaccountably unequal; and we can only assume that he especially intended (for commercial reasons) to produce two classes of work. Stainer-Amati modelling, and rather flatter arching than that usually associated with a Klotz. Very shallow ribs. Carefully selected wood and treated with consideration. Rather small and straightish sound-holes, seldom of pretty design, notches often deep and ugly. Long scroll well thrown back, rather flat in front, but fine sweep of volute. Citron yellow varnish with a reddish or brown tinge. Close grained white larch for table, material for back often of plain figure, though sometimes prettier. Second-class specimens must be relegated to even an insignificant place among the scores of Tyrolese makers, and on which the “glue varnish” completely robs them of whatever beauty they may have had originally. £75 to £100, 1959.
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Joseph Klotz Laut-Geigen
macher in Mittenwald, 1792
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Joseph Kloz senior in
Mittenwald 1807 No. 308
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Joseph Kloz in Mittenwald
an der Iser. anno 1782
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(sloped lettering, decorative border)
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Josef Klotz
Mittenwald. anno 1797
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KLOTZ, JOSEPH (1)
Known as Joseph Thomas and Joseph, senior. Born 1743. Died after 1809. Worked at Mittenwald. Son and pupil of Sebastian. One of the cleverest of this family, but work unaccountably unequal; and we can only assume that he especially intended (for commercial reasons) to produce two classes of work. Stainer-Amati modelling, and rather flatter arching than that usually associated with a Klotz. Very shallow ribs. Carefully selected wood and...
Klotz (Kloz),Joseph (1) (Thomas)
