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Andreas Kempter

Highest auction price

£2,990

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 1765 c. Sat 1st March 1997 £2,990
Violin 1764 Sun 1st January 1984 £288
Biographies

John Dilworth

KEMPTER, Andreas Born 1701 Lechbruck, Allgäu, died 1786 Denklingen, Landsberg Germany. His name appears in the records of Füssen, where he was probably apprenticed. Active in Dillingen from 1725. Died in the parish of his ordained son, Denklingen. Stainer-derived model with high arch; broad proportions quite elegantly handled. Good varnish in various shades. Cellos with relatively flatter arch; also tenor violas. Viola d’amores in the Heyer collection and the Museum of Hamburg with finely carved lion heads. The Heyer instrument dated 1746 and inscribed internally: ‘Andreas Kempter lauthen und / geigen Macher in Dillingen hat / dise grand viole d’amour 1746 / gemacht für den gesitl. Hern / Joan Anton Walther chori / vicario und caeremonario zu / Eychstätt in Dombstyft.’ Printed label: Andreas Kempter Lauten und / Geigenmacher in Dillingen, 1760

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