Curt Claus Voigt
Curt Claus Voigt began his apprenticeship in Markneukirchen at the company Marma, Karl Bauer KG, a small workshop with around eight to ten guitar makers. The workshop produced almost all types of guitars, including classical, jazz and Hawaiian guitars, as well as electric guitars and basses, mandolins and banjos.
He also trained with his grandfather Kurt Voigt, his father Günter Voigt and the master violin maker Hans Zölch to deepen his understanding of historical instruments. Curt Claus passed his master’s examination in 1980 and began working as a freelance restorer of historical plucked instruments for museums and private collectors, including the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Anger Museum Erfurt, the City Museum Meiningen, the Volkskundemuseum Teodone in Bruneck, South Tyrol, and others.
In 1988 he took over the company Kurt Voigt & Son from his father and moved the workshop to Wasserburg am Inn in Upper Bavaria. Curt Claus continued his education through workshops with José Romanillos (in 1991 and 1994) and through extensive study of historic instruments in museums and private collections in France, England, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and Spain.
Marc-Julian Voigt
Marc-Julian Voigt began his training as a luthier with his father Curt Claus Voigt in 2006. He successfully completed his studies at the Fachschule für Instrumentenbau in Mittenwald in 2009.
In 2010 he studied with Wolfgang Früh in Paris, where he learned the restoration of historic guitars and lutes. Today Marc-Julian works independently in his father’s workshop.
The Craft
Classical guitar construction at concert level demands years of accumulated knowledge: how individual pieces of timber vibrate, how bracing patterns affect tonal balance, how small changes in geometry shift the character of an instrument. A finished concert guitar typically represents several hundred hours of hand work. Every decision — wood selection, arch height, brace dimensions — shapes what a player can do with the finished instrument.
