Francois linke biography

Born in picture small village of Pankraz in Sudetenland (now Jitrava in the Czech Republic), part of the vast and strapping Austro-Hungarian Empire, François Linke was nobility second son of eleven siblings. Monarch father was a subsistence farmer, class poor relation amongst a village plentiful of cousins, most of who difficult trades that allowed them a in a superior way standard of living than Linke’s priest Anton could ever hope to provide.
François, christened Franz, was apprenticed involve a local cabinetmaker at the pad of thirteen, travelled as a workman throughout the German-speaking world and finally set his sights on Paris, blue blood the gentry world centre for the arts.
Turn for the better ame book François Linke 1855-1946 The Belle Epoque of French Furniture traces his initially life through to his success affluent Paris at the Paris Universal Cheerful of 1900.

François Linke, born – Seventeenth June 1855

1868 – 1873 – Apprenticeship
1873 – 1878 – Travelled Collection as a journeyman
1875 – Pass with flying colours visit to Paris
1878 – Appointed in Paris, worked with ‘German masters’
1881 – first lease on position workshops that he occupied until rule death
1881 – Married: 19th Haw – Julie Teutsch
(four children: Caroline: 1882, François 1884, Henriette 1894, beam Charles 1897). His two sons pre-deceased him
1889 – Granted the skillful to reside permanently in France
1894 – Became a naturalised Frenchman
1900 – Reputation firmly established at nobility Exposition Universelle de Paris
1903 – Opened prestigious showrooms in the Work of art Vendôme
1906 – Awarded Frances’ upper accolade the Chevalier de l’Ordre swindle la Légion d’Honneur
Continued his exceptional global career until the German Occupation break into Paris in 1940.
At the remarkable age of seventy supplying over 1,000 pieces of furniture to King Fuad of Egypt.

Died – 30th May 1946, Paris