August Friedrich Herrmann was born 1863 and worked in Dresden around the turn of the century and died in 1943. He was the son and student of Friedrich Christian who studied with Joseph Strotz the oldest master bow maker in Germany. FR also spent most of his life working for the famous bow making family of Knopf . August also worked for a time with William Knopf in Dresden but returned to work in his home town of Markneukirchen in 1900, not before marrying the daughter of K.W. Knopf. The Knopf influence is evident in Augusts making.
