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Paul Max (Max snr.) Moller

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£12,597

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	Labelled Nicolaus Bergonzi, Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1765	March 2024	£7,839
Violin		May 2013	£5,875
Violin Bow	S/E 59 g.	March 2009	£1,440
Violin	35.6 cm Amsterdam, 1927	June 2008	£12,597
Violin	35.5 cm Amsterdam, 1920	February 2007	£6,240
Violin	Amsterdam, 1928	November 2005	£2,369
Violin Bow	S/E 60.5 g. [made for]	October 2004	£763
Violin	1933	May 2001	£1,500
Violin	1930	November 2000	£3,525
Viola Bow	S/E 69 g.	April 1998	£1,150
Violin Bow	S/E 62 g.	March 1998	£977
Violin Bow	S/E 63 g.	November 1996	£977
Violin	1925	December 1995	£3,978
Violin Bow	S/E 64 g.	June 1990	£770

Biographies

John Dilworth

MÖLLER, Paul Max (Max sr.) Born 1875 Markneukirchen Germany, died 1948 Amsterdam Netherlands. Violin and bow maker. Trained at the school in Markneukirchen. Worked for R. Nürnberger and H. T. Heberlein. Moved to Lowendahl in Leipzig and in 1900 spent eight months at the shop of Van der Meer in Amsterdam. After a brief experience in St. Petersburg with M. Möckel returned to Van der Meer and finally established his own business in Amsterdam. Prolific maker, credited with over 250 instruments on Stradivari and Guarneri models but many having personal touches including carved angel heads replacing the traditional scroll. Later concentrated on Stradivari models, including several decorated instruments in imitation of the famous inlaid Stradivari violins. Early varnish is of a thin consistency and red tone; later instruments have a thicker deep red-brown varnish prone to craquelure. Several violas of personal model produced after 1945, the maple said to have come from a single tree in the gardens of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. Author of Italiaansche Vioolbouw (Amsterdam, 1938). Bows branded: M. MÖLLER, M. MÖLLER AMSTERDAM, MEUNIER, or MEUNIER A PARIS Max Möller / Amsterdam, 1914 Max Möller / P C. Hoofstraat 34 / Amsterdam [NGV]