Otto Möckel

Violin maker
(1869 – c. 1937)

The son and pupil of Oswald Möckel, he received intensive training in violin-making from his father. Otto was a philanthropist, a practising freemason and a cello player. He was a commercially successful maker, and a published author about violin-making matters, having founding the magazine 'Die Geige' in 1928, and having written the reputed Die Kunst des Geigenbaues (The Art of Violin-makers) (Leipzig, ...Read More 1930).

Oswald and Otto collaboratively made a violin that took part in the great trade exhibition in Berlin in 1896. They are considered to be the best Berlin violin makers of the period. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $18,536 in Mar 2018, for a violin.
- 28 auction price results.

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