Jacob Stainer, Absam, 1678, the 'Hämmerle'
Viola: 41864
Bearing its original label handwritten: "Jacobus Stainer in Absom / propè Oenipontum m.pia 1678."
Back: One-piece birdseye maple, slab-cut
Top: Two-piece, narrow-grained in the center, widening towards the edges
Scroll: of pear woof; carved lion's head
Varnish: Red-brown
Length of back: 39.8 cm
Upper bouts: 19.8 cm
Middle bouts: 13.4 cm
Lower bouts: 24 cm
Notes:
On loan to the Smithsonian Institute till 2004.Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod, Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection
On loan to Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum since 2004.
Classy Visitors To Vienna Museum, The Strad, January, 2004, London
Provenance
| in 1922 and until 1930 | Theodor Hämmerle |
| Sold by Jacques Français | |
| in 2002 | Current owner |
References
Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod (illustrated)- The Strad, January, 2004, Newsquest Specialist Media, London
- Jacob Stainer "… kayserlicher diener und geigenmacher zu Absom", Rudolf Hopfner, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna (illustrated)
- Jakob Stainer: Leben und Werk des Tiroler Meisters, Walter Senn & Karl Roy, Verlag E. Bochinsky, Frankfurt (illustrated)
- The Strad, June, 1995, Sarab Modi, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)