Joseph Aubry

1873 – 1937

 

Joseph Aubry was born in Mirecourt in 1873. He apprenticed as a cabinet maker before taking up violin making at the age of 19. After his apprenticeship in Mirecourt, Aubry began to make his own instruments entirely independently. He also worked as a foreman for the Jérôme Thibouville Lamy workshop and the Laberte workshop, where he became immersed the traditional French workshop model. After almost 40 years in Mirecourt, Aubry moved to Le Havre, France in 1926. There, he took over the Jaquet-Gand workshop and made many of his own instruments.

Many of Aubry’s instruments were modeled after the works of Stradivari and Guarneri. He won his first award in Paris in 1921, and subsequently he won many times at expositions in Paris and Metz.