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Ludovicus Otto

Instruments

Violin by Ludovicus Otto, Cologne, 1873

Maker Overview

Ludovicus Otto is a trade name found on violins and string instruments produced in the Saxon–Bohemian region, most likely around Markneukirchen and surrounding workshops, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The name is a Latinised form used for export branding rather than an individual maker. Instruments bearing this label were typically manufactured in workshop or cottage-industry settings and supplied to the trade, particularly for export markets.

These instruments vary in quality depending on the specific workshop of origin but are generally representative of well-made German trade production of the period, often finished and set up in dealer workshops before sale.

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