Eugeniusz Gosiewski

Instrument: violin

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars with a bow

Violin maker: Eugeniusz Tomasz Gosiewski

Date: 1956

Town: Warsaw

Country: Poland

Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage's Collection of Violins

Inventory number: KIL-20, identification no. MKiS XV-C-20

Provenance: made for the 1957 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań, acquired in 1957

Description: Stradivari’s model; two-piece spruce belly with wide (c. 2 mm) graining, two-piece flame maple back; outstanding tonewood about 50 years old; varnish in dark orange-cherry shades; maintained by: M. Bielański, E. Gosiewski

Inscriptions: printed label: EfG / E. Gosiewski / Warszawa 19(56) / handwritten signature

Measurements: body length 355 mm, upper bout 168 mm, middle bout 110 mm, lower bout 206 mm, total length 595 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Fourth Prize at the 1957 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań (equal with Albert Lang, KIL-19 and Franz J. Klier, KIL-18)

Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation

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