DHV:
836
Tourin ID:
TIELK 031
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Joachim
Tielke
Date:
1685 C
Label Text:
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
D
Ellerhoop
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Heiner Spicker, D-Neuss (later Dormagen-Zons), before 1982-2016; J. Reichmann, Mülheim-Ruhr, after 1940-?; Hedda von Kaulbach, Amsterdam 1928-40; Gustav Graseck, Munich, -1928
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.2
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12.1
Upper Width:
30.3
Middle Width:
22.2
Bottom Width:
37.8
Information
Source:
Hellwig 2011, p. 280; Muthesius 2005, pp. 168-69 (also conversation 7/05); Hellwig 1980, p. 176
Literature:
Hellwig 2011, p. 280; Muthesius 2005, pp. 168-69; Hellwig 1980, p. 176
Photographs:
Eckert 2020 (front [color]); Hellwig 2011, p. 280 (back body only [color]); Muthesius 2005, p. 169 (back of pegbox before and after restoration); [unpublished, from Muthesius 7/05: front 7/8, head 3/4]
Recordings:
Eckert 2020 (Haydn and Friends); Spicker 1982 (Bach Sonatas)
Auctions:
Comments:
Hellwig 2011, TieWV 036; Hellwig 1980, no. 031. Table not original; 2-piece back (arched and folded) has lost its glued-on carved ornaments. Head is Dutch work, c. 1700; neck, fingerboard, and tailpiece also not original. Restored by Ingo Muthesius, Berlin, 1974; previous comprehensive restoration by Paul Gerhard Schmidt, Amsterdam, 1940. Dimensions 67.0, 31.0/23.0/37.0, 12.4, -. Muthesius 2005: non-original table replaced in 1974; back of pegbox redone, having been modified for cello conversion. Hellwig 2011 adds: no purfling on back; pegbox and head Dutch, 2H17C; body widths taken on back. Interior label, in Dutch and signed “H v. K.”, documents acquisition in 1928 and repair work in 1940. Attribution based on body outline and arching; dating by G. Hellwig.