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Guillaume Max (Max jnr.) Moller

Highest auction price

£8,050

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Viola Bow	S/E 60.5 g. [Made for]	Fri 1st October 2010	£788
Cello Bow	S/E 82 g. [made for]	Thu 1st October 2009	£949
Violin	35.7 cm Amsterdam, 1926	Mon 1st October 2007	£6,250
Violin Bow	S/E 61 g. 1920 c. [Made for]	Sun 1st April 2007	£970
Violin Bow	S/E 61.5 g.	Tue 1st November 2005	£840
Viola Bow	S/E 70.5 g.	Thu 1st July 2004	£960
Violin Bow	S/E 62 g.	Thu 1st March 2001	£600
Viola	42.2 cm 1950	Wed 1st March 1995	£8,050
Violin	1954	Sat 1st June 1985	£2,899

Biographies

John Dilworth

MÖLLER, Guillaume Max (Max jr.) Born 1915, died 1985 Amsterdam Netherlands Son, pupil, and assistant of Paul Max Möller, below. Trained at Mittenwald. Employed by A. Dieudonné and C. Enel. Moved to New York 1935 to work with Simone Sacconi in the workshop of Emil Herrmann. Returned to Amsterdam and succeeded to his father’s shop 1948, continuing to work there with K. Rutz, J. Santman, and later H. Leonhardt until his retirement 1980. Awarded the Coupe du Gouvernment de Liège for a quartet in 1954, and a frequent member of competition juries himself. Author of The Violin-Makers of the Low Countries (1955). Co-founder of the ‘Entente des Maîtres Luthiers et Archetiers d’Art’ and the Netherlands Group of Violin and Bow Makers (NGV). Honorary member of the Verband Deutscher Geigenbauer, Knight of the Oranje Nassau, and the Italian Order of the Crown. Violins and violas on a personal model; violas particularly sought after. Varnish a deeper red-brown than that used by his father. Finely made to a very high standard. Max Möller / Junior / Amsterdam 1949 Max Möller filius / Amsterdam 1937, op 2- [NGV]