Notable Sales: Antonio Stradivari | Violin, 1713
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Ex-Kux; Baron Rothschild
Cremona, 1713
labelled Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1713
length of back 35.4cm.
The ‘ex-Kux; Baron Rothschild’ was owned by Baron Rothschild until 1907, when it was gifted to Herr Strallitzky, from whom it was bought by Wilhelm Kux just a year later. Kux was the director of an Austrian bank, an amateur musician, and a collector of musical manuscripts and instruments who fled to Switzerland in 1938 to escape the Anschluss. He also lent the violin the first half of its name. In 1958 the ‘ex-Kux; Baron Rothschild’ was sold to the Rembert Wurlitzer Co., founded by the grandson of Rudolph Wurlitzer, through Ernst Glasner, Kux’s nephew in New York. Wurlitzer parted with the violin in 1960, selling it to Andrew S. Glastad, a shipowner living in Farsund, Norway, who built the Rederiet Hotel in Farsund, which his family still owns.
Some time later, Glastad sold the instrument to Olaf Hesle, a violin maker in Trondheim, Norway, who is thought to have made around 300 instruments. In the 1980s the ‘ex-Kux; Baron Rothschild’ was bought by the Scheuffele family through Renata Koeckert and Sotheby’s and was bought by its current owner in 2016.
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