Michael Klotz

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.6 cm Mittenwald, 1775 c.	Thu 1st April 2010	£3,452
Violin	Mittenwald, 1770 c.	Tue 1st November 2005	£2,369
Violin	1775 c.	Fri 1st March 1996	£4,600
Violin	1776	Tue 1st November 1994	£4,600
Violin	17--	Sun 1st November 1981	£770

John Dilworth

KLOTZ, Michael Born 1749, died 1814 Mittenwald Germany Son of Johann Karl Klotz, above. His own label is rare, and many instruments have probably been given labels of Joseph Klotz. Decorated work with ebony and ivory inlay on outer edges and around scroll, some with bird’s eye maple backs. Amatisé work with characteristic Klotz scroll and extended curved wings to soundhole. Varnish of good quality; thin in texture but transparent; both dark and light shades. Michael Kloz in Mitten- / wald an der Iser. An. 1789

Cecie Stainer

Two brothers, working in Mittenwald about 1770. A great many of the violins with “Stainer” labels are made by members of the Klotz family and their imitators, the “Klotz” labels having been destroyed by the dealers and spurious “Stainer” ones substituted. Probably, also, when these makers had turned out a specially good instrument they used a ” Stainer ” label instead of their own. Authentic instruments of the Klotz family are consequently not common.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Ziemlich gewöhnlich gearbeitete Geigen (für die aber immerhin noch bis 300 M. verlangt werden) tragen den Namen Michael Klotz. Nach dem Stammbaum der Familie des Math. Klotz gab es nur einen Michael Kl., Sohn von Joh. Carl, der schon als Kind 1743 gestorben ist und unmöglich Geigen gemacht haben kann. Der um 1750—90 vorkommende »Geigenmacher Michael Klotz« gehörte also, wenn er überhaupt lebte, nicht zu der Linie des Math. Kl.

£4,600

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