Amédée Dominique Dieudonné (6 August 1890 – 1 February 1960) was a French luthier. His instruments sold in Europe and the United States.[1]
Biography
editThe son of the luthier Albert Dieudonné, Amédée Dominique Dieudonné was born on 6 August 1890[2] in Mirecourt in the Vosges department. Amédée Dominique Dieudonné was formed by Gustave Bazin and then at the Darche workshop in Brussels. After the First World War, he established himself as a luthier in Mirecourt in the 1920s. Specializing in the copies of the Cremona masters, he excelled in the rendering of varnishes, going from red to bright red.
Amédée Dominique Dieudonné died on 1 February 1960, in Mirecourt.[2]
Among his numerous pupils were Charles René Bazin, Jacques then Alfred-Eugène Holder, Pierre Vogelweith, Rambert Würlizer, Victor Aubry, Philippe Coornaert, William Mönig, Jean Striebig, Étienne Vatelot.[2]
Sources
edit- René Vannes : Essai d’un dictionnaire universel des luthiers,[3] Librairie Fischbacher, Paris, 1932, 430 pages
References
edit- ^ Catalogue Würlitzer, 1935.
- ^ a b c Amédée Dieudonné, 1890 - 1960 on luthiers-mirecourt.com
- ^ Essai d’un dictionnaire universel des luthiers
External links
edit- Violin by Amédée Dominique Dieudonné on Cité de la Musique
- Dictionnaire des facteurs d'instruments de musique en Wallonie
- Dieudonné, Amédée Dominique on Archives de la lutherie Mirecourt
