Joachim Matthias Wendt (1830 - 1917)

Born 26 Jun 1830 in Itzehoe, Holstein, Denmark

Husband of Johanna Maria Caroline (Ohlmeyer) Koeppen-Wendt — married 25 Dec 1869 in Zetland House, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Died 7 Sep 1917 at age 87 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Joachim M Wendt is Notable.

Joachim Matthias Wendt was born in 1830 in Itzehoe, Holstein, Denmark in 1830. He was apprenticed in the Watchmaker and Silversmith Trade. He migrated to SA in 1854 ^[1] and commenced trade as a Watchmaker, Clockmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith.
The quality of his workmanship and design was recognized at the New Zealand Exhibition of 1865, ^[2] held in Dunedin, where his silverware and jewellery won first prize. For the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Adelaide in 1867, Wendt's firm produced four presentation caskets; the duke commissioned further work and appointed him 'Jeweller to His Royal Highness' in the colony of South Australia. Wendt's staff had expanded to include twelve silversmiths and in 1869 he opened another shop at Mount Gambier. . . . more . . adb.anu.edu . . .

. . . . Wendt's silverwork included extravagant naturalistic creations, stylish Edwardian domestic designs and pieces which showed restrained Regency taste. At its best, it ranks with the finest produced in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Among his important commissions was the salver presented to E. M. Young in 1870 (now held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra); Wendt also submitted a pair of prize-winning epergnes to the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. Commercial success encouraged him in 1888 to open a further branch at Broken Hill, New South Wales.

In 1869, J M Wendt married the widow of his friend Hermann Theodore Koeppen who had died in 1868.
Johanna Maria Koeppen first children; Anna Wilhelmine 1852, Louise Johanna 1856, Hermann Carl 1860.
J M Wendt and Johanna Maria children were ; Julius Matthias 1871, Alice Louise Emilie 1873, Margarethe Hermine 1875.
He died on 7 September 1917 at his home "Eskbank" in Wakefield Street East and was buried at North Road Cemetery. His Estate was sworn for Probate at £33,883. MH June 2015

• Julius Ludwig Schomburgk, (c. 1818 - 9 March 1893), was chief designer for noted Adelaide silversmith J. M. Wendt.
  

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1. ↑ Wikipedia states 1851 but in J M Wendt's own words (see image) it was 1854.
2. ↑ Richard Phillips, Wendt, Joachim Matthias (1830–1917), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 25 May 2018.