Hans Weisshaar

Hans Weisshaar, Master Violin Maker, arrived in the United States in 1937 after studying at the famous German State School for Violin Making in Mittenwald and working in Switzerland, Holland, and Germany. He became an American citizen and during those early years, worked for William Lewis and Son in Chicago, then for Emil Hermann in New York. In Hermann’s well-known shop, Weisshaar worked alongside the maker who would become the most influential violin restorer of the 20th century, Simone F. Sacconi.

In New York, Weisshaar met the violin virtuoso Nathan Milstein, who urged Weisshaar to go west to Los Angeles, where there had been a dire need for a professional violin maker and restorer. So in 1947, he moved to Los Angeles and established the first world-class violin making and restoration workshop in the western United States.

With his reputation for high standards, Weisshaar’s firm became the destination of an ever-expanding constellation of luminaries, including Pablo Casals, Mischa Elman, Zino Francescatti, Jascha Heifetz, Yehudi Menuhin, Michael Rabin, Isaac Stern, Heinryk Szeryng, and Joseph Szigeti, and Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld.

Hans Weisshaar maintained one of the largest professional violin and bow making and restoration workshops in the United States and he became a mentor to scores of young violin and bow makers and restorers from around the world in his atelier. Mr. Weisshaar made history with his unprecedented restorations of the “Red Diamond” violin, which afterward became dramatic international news, and “The Bass of Spain” cello, both made by Antonius Stradivari.

As a driving force in the violin trade, Mr. Weisshaar was a co-founder of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers in 1980. The Manual for Violin Restoration, co-authored by Hans Weisshaar and Margaret Shipman, was a milestone for the company and the violin making trade. Mr. Weisshaar lived to see its publication in 1988 and enjoyed its many accolades. Upon his death in 1991, Ms. Shipman took over the firm.

Georg Eittinger, Master Violin Maker, was mentored in the Weisshaar workshops. He bought the company in 2004 and opened a branch of the Weisshaar company in Berlin in 2005.

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