VIOLIN - Max Moller (luthier) maker 1963

Description

Violin made in 1963 in Amsterdam - by a well-known violin maker Berend Max Moler.  The instrument has a wonderful big sound and is a Guaraneri Del Gesu model.
Great solo instrument.
Möller was mentored as a luthier by his father, Paul Max Möller (1875–1948). He also trained at Staatliche Berufsfachschule für Musikinstrumentenbau Mittenwald
(Musical Instrument Making School Mittenwald
). Möller was employed by Amedee-Dominique Dieudonne
(1890–
) and Charles Enel (1880–1954). He moved to New York
1935 to work with Simone Sacconi
in the workshop of Emil Herrmann.
Upon the death of his father in 1948, Möller returned to Amsterdam
to head his father’s studio, where he worked with continuing craftsmen Karl Rutz (1896–
), Jan Santmann (1920–1978), and later Hartmut Leonhardt until Möller's retirement 1980. His son, Berend Max Möller (1944–1989), succeeded him at the violin studio until he had been fatally shot in 1989 during a home burglary. Berend's wife, Cornélie, ran the shop until 2006.
Luthier Andreas Post (born 1956), a master violin maker who had trained in Mittenwald (1982) and worked for Möller, moved his shop into the same location at
(15 Willems Park Road) in 2008.