HOFFMANN, JOHANN MICHAEL (Austr.). Mint-engraver at Vienna, from May 29 1680 to 1733. On a document of 1683 he is styled " kayserl. Siegel und Wappensteinschneider ". By him are the following coins and medals : Thalers and Half Thalers of various dates (Austrian currency); — Medal on the Siege of Vienna by the Turks (3 types); — Medal of 1685 on the War against the Turks ; — Thaler of Prince John Adolph von Schwarzenberg, 1682; — Thaler of Prince Ferdinand William Eusebius of Schwarzenberg, Landgrave of Sulz, 1696 (with jugate busts of the Prince and his consort); — Thaler of Joseph I., 1711 (signed I. M. H.); — Frankfort Coronation Medal of Charles VI., 1711; — Presentation of the Imperial Orb to Charles VI., 1711 ; — Restoration of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1712; — Prague Coronation Medal ot Charles VI., 1723 (2 var.) ; — The Pragmat- ic Sanction, 1722 ; &c. In 1715 the artist was appointed Warden of the Vienna Mint. Hoffmann was sent in 1693 to instal the Mint at Kremnitz; and in 1705 he was commissioned to execute three seals for Bavaria, for which he was paid 72 florins. Bibliography. — C. Oesterrcicher, op. cit. — Katalog der Münzen-und- Medaillen-Stempel-Sammlung in Wien.
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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