Voigt Viola: Museum Object and Cultural History
Voigt Viola: date made: ca. 1768. maker: Voigt, Johann Georg. Object Name: viola.
The object in the museum catalogue
This Viola was made by Johann Georg Voigt in Neukirchen bei Adorf, about 1768. There are four labels inside this instrument:
[handwritten] Raccamade par G. Berenger Philadelphia Fevrier, 1796
Johann Georg Voigt brobe Violinmacher in Neu- kirchen bei Adorf in Voigtland
George Berenger was an itinerant musician who live and worked in Philadelphia in the late 18th century.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca. 1768
- maker: Voigt, Johann Georg
- Object Name: viola
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 26 in x 9 in x 4 1/2 in; 66.04 cm x 22.86 cm x 11.43 cm
- place made: Germany: Saxony, Neukirchen im Erzgebirge
- ID Number: 2009.0260.01
- catalog number: 2009.0260.01
- accession number: 2009.0260
- Credit Line: Gift of Steven C. Mallory
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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