HILDEBRAND, BERNARD (French). Contemporary Gem-engraver, born at Mantoillot (Côte-d'Or). He studied drawing at the Munici- pal School under M. Lequien, Rue des Petits-Hôtels, Paris, and there obtained a gold medal. His first exhibits at the Salon, in 1885 and 1886, are Cameo-portraits, a large number of which he exe- cuted at about that time for American families then residing at Paris. In the following years, Hildebrand produced, beside very fine Portraits, some beautiful cameos, amongst which M. Babelon notes for their special merit : 1887, Hebe, cameo on sardonyx of three strata; — 1888, Orpheus losing Eurydice ; — 1889, Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches, cameo on sardonyx of three strata, which was awarded a " Mention honorable"; — 1890, Youthful Bacchus and Bacchante; — 1892, Love undecided, cameo representing Venus restraining Cupid from discharging his arrows; — 1892, Andromede delivered, for which the artist obtained a medal of the third class; — 1895, Esmeralda, cameo purchased by the State, and now on exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum ; — 1896, Eve, cameo on sardonyx of three strata; — 1897, Venus disarming Cupid, large cameo on reddish sardonyx of two layers, for which Hildebrand was awarded a medal of the second class ; it is one of the artist's most important works ; — 1899, Prometheus chained, cameo on sardonyx of three strata; — 1 90 1, The Nest, and three portraits of Children (Jeanne, Alice, Robert) on sardonyx; — 1902, Diana surprised, cameo on sardo- nyx of two layers (illustrated) ; — 1903, Toilet of Venus, sardonyx cameo of three strata. Bibliography. — Babelon, Histoire de la Gravure sur Gemmes en France, Paris, 1902-1903. — Catalogue du Salon, 1901-1903. — Catalogue de I'Exposition univer- sale de 1900. — L. Bénédite, Catalogue du Musée du Luxembourg.
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
HEIOS
HEIOS. A fictitious signature of a Greek Gem-engraver, found on modern gems : Diana the huntress, sard (Stosch); — Dying Amazon, sard (Raspe) ; — Head of youth with curly hair, sard (Lord Greville) ; — Minerva, nicolo (Raspe); — Ulysses and Diomede killing Dolon (Blacas). Bibliography. — Babelon, La Gravure en pierres fines, Paris, 1894. — A. Furtvängler, Studien über die Gemmen mit Künstlerinschriften, in Iahrbuch des Kais. Deutsch. Archaeol. Inslituts, 1888-9. — C. W. King, Antique Gems, i860....
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HEIOS. A fictitious signature of a Greek Gem-engraver, found on modern gems : Diana the huntress, sard (Stosch); — Dying Amazon, sard (Raspe) ; — Head of youth with curly hair, sard (Lord Greville) ; — Minerva, nicolo (Raspe); — Ulysses and Diomede killing Dolon (Blacas). Bibliography. — Babelon, La Gravure en pierres fines, Paris, 1894. — A. Furtvängler, Studien über die Gemmen mit Künstlerinschriften, in Iahrbuch des Kais. Deutsch. Archaeol. Inslituts, 1888-9. — C. W. King, Antique Gems, i860....
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HELD, AUGUST LUDWIG
HELD, AUGUST LUDWIG (Germ.). Medallist of the early part ot the nineteenth century. He was born in 1805, and died quite young, on 17. September 1839. " He has left a considerable number of works", says Bolzenthal, " in which some richness of composition is to be observed ; he was however too rapid to be able to execute anything important. " He resided at Berlin, but came from Altenburg, and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos. Ludwig Held's signature occurs on the following medals which have come...
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HELD, AUGUST LUDWIG (Germ.). Medallist of the early part ot the nineteenth century. He was born in 1805, and died quite young, on 17. September 1839. " He has left a considerable number of works", says Bolzenthal, " in which some richness of composition is to be observed ; he was however too rapid to be able to execute anything important. " He resided at Berlin, but came from Altenburg, and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos. Ludwig Held's signature occurs on the following medals which have come...
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HELD, JOHANN (2.)
HELD, JOHANN (Germ.). Son of the last, born in 1734; died on October 17, 1808, at Kreutzburg. Medallist to the Breslau Mint, where he first worked with his father, as early as 1768. He is the author of the following medals : General von Farrat; — Christian Garve, Philosopher; — Prince Hohenlohe; — Hönicke; — Minister von Hoyen ; — Christian L. Ludovici ; — Bernhard von Sternenheim of Brieg, 1771 ; — General von Tauentzien ; — Weger ; — Extinction of the Piasts, 1775 ; — Medal of Ölf, 1768, &c. B...
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HELD, JOHANN (Germ.). Son of the last, born in 1734; died on October 17, 1808, at Kreutzburg. Medallist to the Breslau Mint, where he first worked with his father, as early as 1768. He is the author of the following medals : General von Farrat; — Christian Garve, Philosopher; — Prince Hohenlohe; — Hönicke; — Minister von Hoyen ; — Christian L. Ludovici ; — Bernhard von Sternenheim of Brieg, 1771 ; — General von Tauentzien ; — Weger ; — Extinction of the Piasts, 1775 ; — Medal of Ölf, 1768, &c. B...
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HELFRICHT, FRIEDRICH FERDINAND
HELFRICHT, FRIEDRICH FERDINAND (Germ.). Court-medallist at Gotha, born on 8. September 1809, died on 17. May 1892. "His talent for medallic work", says Dr F. P.Weber," showed itself in early life, and his medal of the Gotha statesman, Lindenau, attracted the attention of Duke Ernest I. of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, by whose aid he was able to study at the Berlin Academy. There, under the sculptor Shadow, his love for the antique was developed, and this taste is well shown in his marriage-medal of Duke E...
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HELFRICHT, FRIEDRICH FERDINAND (Germ.). Court-medallist at Gotha, born on 8. September 1809, died on 17. May 1892. "His talent for medallic work", says Dr F. P.Weber," showed itself in early life, and his medal of the Gotha statesman, Lindenau, attracted the attention of Duke Ernest I. of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, by whose aid he was able to study at the Berlin Academy. There, under the sculptor Shadow, his love for the antique was developed, and this taste is well shown in his marriage-medal of Duke E...
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