CARL GUSTAV FEHRMANN, 1746-1809, Swedish Medallist.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
BUONAROTTI, MICHELANGELO
BUONAROTTI, MICHELANGELO (Ital.). Sculptor, Painter, Architect and Poet, born at Castel Caprese, near Arezzo in Tuscany, on the 16th of March 1475, died in his eighty-ninth year at Rome, on the 17th of February, 1564. He was the greatest artist of the Renaissance period, and Lorenzo the Magnificent, his celebrated patron, is said to have often consulted him before purchasing antique gems and coins. Michelangelo's title to figure amongst medallists is supported by a Portrait-medallion of himself,...
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BUONAROTTI, MICHELANGELO (Ital.). Sculptor, Painter, Architect and Poet, born at Castel Caprese, near Arezzo in Tuscany, on the 16th of March 1475, died in his eighty-ninth year at Rome, on the 17th of February, 1564. He was the greatest artist of the Renaissance period, and Lorenzo the Magnificent, his celebrated patron, is said to have often consulted him before purchasing antique gems and coins. Michelangelo's title to figure amongst medallists is supported by a Portrait-medallion of himself,...
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BURDY, HENRI AUGUSTE
BURDY, HENRI AUGUSTE (French). Medallist, Sculptor, and Gemengraver ; pupil of Oudiné ; born at Grenoble in 1843. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1863, in which year he gained the second prize of the Concours pour Rome for his medal representing Bacchus giving a panther to drink. His best known productions are : Portrait-medallion of Dr A. Guillaume, 1865; — Julius Caesar ; — Dog on his master's tomb ; — Portrait-medallion of M. Vaubourseix, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1867; — Gen...
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BURDY, HENRI AUGUSTE (French). Medallist, Sculptor, and Gemengraver ; pupil of Oudiné ; born at Grenoble in 1843. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1863, in which year he gained the second prize of the Concours pour Rome for his medal representing Bacchus giving a panther to drink. His best known productions are : Portrait-medallion of Dr A. Guillaume, 1865; — Julius Caesar ; — Dog on his master's tomb ; — Portrait-medallion of M. Vaubourseix, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1867; — Gen...
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BURGER, HEINRICH J.
BURGER, HEINRICH J. (Swiss). A clever Lithographer, residing at Zurich, Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, formerly partner in the well-known firm of Hofer & Burger, and now (since 1896) one of the Directors of the Polygraphic Institute. To medallic art he has contributed on various occasions some original designs for medals, the most conspicuous being a Zurich Schützenfest medal, 1888, with armorial bearings of the city on R, and a large com memorative piece of the Postal Jubilee, 1893, the ...
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BURGER, HEINRICH J. (Swiss). A clever Lithographer, residing at Zurich, Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, formerly partner in the well-known firm of Hofer & Burger, and now (since 1896) one of the Directors of the Polygraphic Institute. To medallic art he has contributed on various occasions some original designs for medals, the most conspicuous being a Zurich Schützenfest medal, 1888, with armorial bearings of the city on R, and a large com memorative piece of the Postal Jubilee, 1893, the ...
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BURGER, SEBASTIAN
BURGER, SEBASTIAN or SAMUEL (Swiss). Medallist of the beginning of the nineteenth century, born on April 3., 1791, died 12. December 1848. He engraved one of the medals known as “ Sechszehner pfenning" for Berne (1818?), aud others on the Battle of Morgarten ; — Ossuary of Morat; 1844 ; — Glaris Shooting Medal, 1847; — Mechtild and Anna von Seiler; — Events at Neuchâtel in 1857; — Insel Spital, Berne, 1718-1818. This Engraver's initials appear also on a Beromünster St. Michaels Gulden and Half-G...
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BURGER, SEBASTIAN or SAMUEL (Swiss). Medallist of the beginning of the nineteenth century, born on April 3., 1791, died 12. December 1848. He engraved one of the medals known as “ Sechszehner pfenning" for Berne (1818?), aud others on the Battle of Morgarten ; — Ossuary of Morat; 1844 ; — Glaris Shooting Medal, 1847; — Mechtild and Anna von Seiler; — Events at Neuchâtel in 1857; — Insel Spital, Berne, 1718-1818. This Engraver's initials appear also on a Beromünster St. Michaels Gulden and Half-G...
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