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Georg Ferdinand WENGER

Highest auction price

£3,680

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.1 cm Augsburg, 1730 c. Thu 1st October 2009 £816
Cello 1756 1/2 Size Sat 1st October 2005 £917
Violin 1739 Wed 1st March 1995 £3,680
Biographies

John Dilworth

WENGER, Georg Ferdinand Born circa. 1680 Vienna Austria, died 1757 Augsburg Germany. Active in Augsburg from 1701, when he married the widow of J. Fichtl. One of the better makers of the Augburg school. Full-arched Tyrolean model. Narrow edge and purfling. Broadly cut soundholes. Scroll very much in the Albani manner. Light gold to dark brown varnish, fairly insubstantial but transparent. Carved animal or human heads frequently encountered. Also violas, cellos and various plucked instruments recorded. Labels with posthumous dates known, presumably finished by assistants. Gregori Ferdinand Wenger / Lauten- und Geigen-macher, / fecit Augustae 1732

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