Erwin Hertel

Highest auction price

£11,066

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Cello	Labelled Erwin Hertel fecit New York 1960	Fri 1st March 2024	£11,066
Violin	35.3 cm New York, 1958	Thu 1st October 2009	£2,781
Cello	New York, 1958	Fri 1st May 2009	£6,636
Violin	35.5 cm New York, 1951	Wed 1st October 2008	£1,808
Cello	76.5 cm New York, 1951	Thu 1st May 2008	£2,559
Viola	41.3 cm New York, 1951	Thu 1st May 2008	£1,084
Violin	35.5 cm New York, 1951	Thu 1st May 2008	£904

Biographies

John Dilworth

HERTEL, Erwin Born 1911 Adorf, Germany, died 1985 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA. Student at Mittenwald from 1928. Moved to the USA 1933, to work in Philadelphia. Later employed by Emil Herrmann in New York alongside Simone Sacconi. Established independently in Long Island, New York from 1952; finally settled in Pittsburgh. Stradivari models for violin and viola, Stradivari and Montagnana cello models. Red spirit based varnish. Viola illustrated in the catalogue of the Sacconi Loan Exhibition, New York 1966. [Wenberg]