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Janos Michelberger

Highest auction price

£4,490

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.8 cm Budapest, 1920 c. Thu 1st May 2008 £4,490
Violin Budapest, 1926 Sun 1st May 2005 £2,137
Violin Budapest, 1926 Sun 1st February 2004 £3,971
Violin 1928 Sat 1st June 2002 £981
Biographies

John Dilworth

MICHELBERGER, Janos Born 1886 Erd, died 1935 Budapest Hungary. Pupil of Andreas Bergmann. Worked for Mihaly Reményi, Karl Otto Zimmer, and Robert Laumann. Established independently in Budapest from 1920. Fine copies of Cremonese work. Also copied Nemessanyi. Hard spirit varnish in dark orange or red colours. One of the best Hungarian makers of the period. Branded internally. Manuscript label: Michelberger Janos / 19..

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