CHRISTALLER (Germ.). Contemporary Sculptor of Stuttgart, who modelled a Portrait-piece of Prince Bismarck, issued by Mayer & Wilhelm.
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
HUBER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH
HUBER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (Swiss). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Basle in 1766. He studied at Rome, and was a pupil of Johann Martin Bückle. Towards the end of the eighteenth century he was working at the mint of Basle, but in 1805 he entered into Eartnership with an art-dealer of his native city, from which time he apparently ceased to do medal-work. Huber's full signature I. F. HVBER appears on a Prize Medal of the City and Republic of Basle, 1792, given to representatives of Swiss States...
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HUBER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (Swiss). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Basle in 1766. He studied at Rome, and was a pupil of Johann Martin Bückle. Towards the end of the eighteenth century he was working at the mint of Basle, but in 1805 he entered into Eartnership with an art-dealer of his native city, from which time he apparently ceased to do medal-work. Huber's full signature I. F. HVBER appears on a Prize Medal of the City and Republic of Basle, 1792, given to representatives of Swiss States...
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HUE, ERNEST
HUE, ERNEST (French). Contemporary Gem-engraver, born at Paris ; a pupil of A. Toussaint and Salmson Senr. He has exhibited the following gems at the Paris Salons: 1861. Cupid chained at the foot of a bust of Minerva by a female who scorns his anger, after Prud'hon's picture, onyx cameo; — 1875. Diane de Poitiers, after Jean Goujon, bust in sardonyx; — Prevost, of the Comédie-Française, cameo in onyx; — Universal Exhibition of 1878. Terpsi chore and Erato, after Prud'hon, sardonyx cameo ;— Galli...
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HUE, ERNEST (French). Contemporary Gem-engraver, born at Paris ; a pupil of A. Toussaint and Salmson Senr. He has exhibited the following gems at the Paris Salons: 1861. Cupid chained at the foot of a bust of Minerva by a female who scorns his anger, after Prud'hon's picture, onyx cameo; — 1875. Diane de Poitiers, after Jean Goujon, bust in sardonyx; — Prevost, of the Comédie-Française, cameo in onyx; — Universal Exhibition of 1878. Terpsi chore and Erato, after Prud'hon, sardonyx cameo ;— Galli...
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HUGUENIN FRÉRES
HUGUENIN FRÉRES (Suriss). One of the foremost Die-sinking establishments of Switzerland, founded at Le Locle (Canton Neuchâtel) in 1868, and occupying at the present time over one hundred workmen. Besides manufacturing watch-cases, in which branch Huguenin freres have earned a well-merited reputation, the firm has been also connected for the last twenty years with medal-work, and has developed into an eminently successful business concern, thanks to the sound professional knowledge of the partne...
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HUGUENIN FRÉRES (Suriss). One of the foremost Die-sinking establishments of Switzerland, founded at Le Locle (Canton Neuchâtel) in 1868, and occupying at the present time over one hundred workmen. Besides manufacturing watch-cases, in which branch Huguenin freres have earned a well-merited reputation, the firm has been also connected for the last twenty years with medal-work, and has developed into an eminently successful business concern, thanks to the sound professional knowledge of the partne...
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HUJER, LUDWIG
HUJER, LUDWIG (Austr.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Wilhelmshöhe (North Bohemia) on the 20. July 1872. He visited the Industrial Schools of Gablonz where he learned the first elements of modelling and chasing. After two years' practical appren- ticeship at Vienna, he entered in 1891 the studio of the sculptor Prof. Kühne, and in 1893 became a pupil of the medallist Prof. Stefan Schwartz. Between 1895 and 1898, when he definitively settled at Vienna, the young artist visited Belg...
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HUJER, LUDWIG (Austr.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Wilhelmshöhe (North Bohemia) on the 20. July 1872. He visited the Industrial Schools of Gablonz where he learned the first elements of modelling and chasing. After two years' practical appren- ticeship at Vienna, he entered in 1891 the studio of the sculptor Prof. Kühne, and in 1893 became a pupil of the medallist Prof. Stefan Schwartz. Between 1895 and 1898, when he definitively settled at Vienna, the young artist visited Belg...
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