Otto Mockel

Highest auction price

£8,708

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	Labelled Otto Möckel fec. Berlin anno 1931, branded to the inside back and inside table OM and a leaf	Thu 1st February 2024	£8,708
Violin		Wed 29th October 2014	£2,750
Violin	35.5 cm Berlin, 1931	Tue 1st June 2010	£5,760
Violin	35.5 cm Berlin, 1929	Sat 1st November 2008	£3,592
Violin	35.5 cm Berlin, 1932 [Workshop of]	Sat 1st November 2008	£1,397
Cello	75.3 cm Berlin, 1915 c.	Tue 1st May 2007	£5,778
Violin	Berlin, 1934	Tue 1st November 2005	£3,316
Violin	Berlin, 1936	Tue 1st November 2005	£2,842
Cello	Berlin, 1910 c.	Sun 1st May 2005	£6,600
Violin	Berlin, 1927	Sun 1st May 2005	£5,651
Violin	1917	Sat 1st March 2003	£4,200
Viola	1935	Thu 1st November 2001	£900
Violin	1927	Wed 1st March 1995	£5,290
Violin	1889	Thu 1st February 1990	£1,155
Violin	1893	Tue 1st September 1987	£748
Violin	1899	Sat 1st November 1986	£1,980
Violin	1909	Wed 1st October 1986	£682

Biographies

John Dilworth Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

John Dilworth

MÖCKEL, Otto Born 1869, died 1937 Berlin Germany. Son and pupil of Oswald Möckel, above. Also trained with Carl Grimm. Worked in London for Richard Bruckner 1890-1892, before rejoining his father in Berlin. Established independently in Dresden 1908-1912, then succeeded to his father’s shop in Ansbacher Strasse, Charlottenburg, Berlin, in which he himself was eventually succeeded by Curt Jung. Early work on classical models, particularly focused on the Guarneri forms, culminating in a fusion of Brescian and Cremonese ideas. Acknowledged as a pre-eminent expert and connoisseur, and a prolific writer on the violin. Founder of the magazine ‘Die Geige’ in 1928, author of the important and influential work Die Kunst des Geigenbaues (The Art of Violin-makers) (Leipzig, 1930). Otto Möckel fec. anno 19..