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Caspar Hopf

Biographies

John Dilworth

HOPF, Caspar Born 1650 Kraslice (Graslitz) Czech Republic, died 1711 Stolberg Germany. Founder of the Klingenthal school c.1681 and regarded as the best maker of the family. Large model; typically square outline form, with high arch, particularly on the front; also of somewhat square section.

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