5 Generations

5 Generations

August Wilhelm Brückner | Alfred Ernst Konrad Brückner | Wilhelm Konrad Brückner | Ruth Ulrike Brückner | Christoph Brückner

August Wilhelm

1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner (1874-1925)

1874-1925

Alfred Ernst Konrad

2nd Generation: Alfred Ernst Konrad Brückner (1906-1944)

1906-1944

Wilhelm Konrad

3rd Generation: Wilhelm Konrad Brückner (1932)

*1932

Ruth Ulrike

4th Generation: Ruth Ulrike Brückner (1962)

*1962

Christoph

5th Generation: Christoph Brückner (1982)

*1982

2012
3rd/4th/5th Generation: The Brückners

On occasion of Wilhelm Brückners 80th birthday, author Stefan Sethe published the book “Violinmaking in the reflection of time”. The shortened, slightly altered special edition can be found here as festschrift.

2011
5th Generation: Christoph Brückner

passes his journeyman’s examination in Klingenthal, Germany, and works in the Erfurt family establishment from now on.

2008
5th Generation: Christoph Brückner

begins a violinmaking apprenticeship in the workshop of his mother and grandfather.

1999
3rd/4th Generation: The Brückners

Wilhelm and Ruth Brückner establish the Brückner & Brückner GbR.

1997
3rd/4th Generation: The Brückners

celebrate their workshop anniversary “100 Jahre Geigenbau Brückner”.

1990
4th Generation: Ruth Ulrike Brückner

passes the master craftsman examination in Markneukirchen and works in her father’s workshop from now on.

1987
3rd Generation: Wilhelm Konrad Brückner

begins a teaching at the violinmakers school in Leksand, Sweden.

1983
4th Generation: Ruth Ulrike Brückner

passes the journeyman’s examination in Leipzig.

1982
1981
4th Generation: Ruth Ulrike Brückner

begins a violinmaking apprenticeship under her father Wilhelm.

1962
1960
3rd Generation: Wilhelm Konrad Brückner

takes over the long-standing workshop from his mother in Erfurt.

1956
3rd Generation: Wilhelm Konrad Brückner

passes the master craftsman examinations in Erfurt.

1951
3rd Generation: Wilhelm Konrad Brückner

becomes employee of the prestigious master violinmaker Willi Lindörfer in Weimar, Germany.

1947
3rd Generation: Wilhelm Konrad Brückner

begins a violinmaking apprenticeship under master violinmaker Willy Dölling in Markneukirchen.

1944
2nd Generation: Alfred Ernst Konrad Brückner

has been killed as soldier during war in Russia. The widow Elsa Brückner continues the business and the workshop.

1932
1930
2nd Generation: Alfred Ernst Konrad Brückner

takes over the workshop after his father’s death.

1929
1922
2nd Generation: Alfred Ernst Konrad Brückner

begins a violinmaking apprenticeship under his father August Wilhelm.

1912
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

is affiliated to the German Violinmakers Association.

1907
1897
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

establishes his first own workshop in Johannesstrasse 16 in Erfurt, Germany.

1895
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

works for Dr. Alfred Stelzner in Dresden, Germany.

1892
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

works as journeyman in Munich for master violinmaker Guiseppe Fiorini, the best violinmaker in Germany at that time.

1890
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

passes his journeyman years under master violinmaker Hans Jäger and in the company Todt in Markneukirchen.

1887
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

begins a violinmaking apprenticeship under his eldest brother Albin Brückner.

1874
1st Generation: August Wilhelm Brückner

is born in Markneukirchen, Germany.