Notable Sales: Antonio Stradivari | Violin, 1716
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Ex-Nachez
Cremona, 1716
labelled Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1716 AS
length of back 35.8cm.
The first recorded owner of the 1716 ‘ex-Nachèz’ Stradivari was Eduard Kuchner who passed the violin to Tivador Nachèz, from whom the violin received its name, in 1900. Nachèz was a Hungarian-born violinist who studied under Joseph Joachim in Berlin and under Hubert Léonard in Paris. His debut was in Hamburg in 1881 and he went on to have an international career including performances of his own violin concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1907 and the New Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria in 1910. Nachèz also owned two other Strads, a second violin bearing the name ‘ex-Nachèz’ (1709) and the other known as the ‘ex-Nachèz;Hill’ (1686).
After Nachèz’s death in 1930 the violin was sold by J&A Beare to Miss Aline Hay, who owned it until 1964, when it was sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s for £8,000. In 1967 the violin was bought by Baroness Frieda von Usslar, daughter of the founders of Hamburg’s renowned Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, situated on the banks of the Inner Alster Lake. Although the Baroness died in 1975, the violin remained in her family until 2003, when it was sold by Sotheby’s in their November sale to its current owner. The money made by von Usslar’s family from the sale of the ‘ex-Nachez’ was given to a charity providing musical instruments to children in a German industrial town.
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