KAUTSCH, HEINRICH (Austr.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Prague in 1859, now residing at Paris. His father was a Goldsmith, under whose tuition he gained the first notions of art. He continued his studies at the city schools of Prague, under Professors Popp, Mentzel and Schulz, and already won prizes in 1876 and 1878; afterwards he became a pupil of the Industrial Arts' School at Vienna under Professors Schwartz and König. On his leaving Vienna, the young artist visited the chief art centres of Italy, France and Germany, and made a stay of some duration in each of these countries. Returning to Prague in 1882 he accepted a professorship at the Imperial School of Decorative Arts there; in 1888, he was called to Budweis (Bohemia) to reorganise the Museum of Decorative Arts, and while there he wrote his work " Goldschmiede-Arbeiten des XV. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts" and founded a school for drawing and sculpture. In 1889, he settled at Paris. At the Salon of 1897 he was rewarded for a bust of the Emperor Francis Joseph I. which he exhibited. In 1893, he was a member of the Jury of Fine Arts at the Chicago World's Fair, and official Reporter for Austria on the Fine Arts and Decorative Arts. At the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1900, he was Vice-President of the Jury (Classe 97), and a member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Commission. In 1895, he executed another marble bust of the Emperor Francis Joseph, which now adorns the Austrian Embrassy. He has been on several Universal Exhibition juries, and he it was who so successfully organised the French section at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of Fine Arts, in 1904. The artist is a Knight of the Legion of Honour, also of the Order of Francis Joseph, and holds numerous other foreign decorations. Many of his medals are exhibited at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. By Heinrich Kautsch are the following medallic works : 1896, Léon Hennique, plaquette, 50 mill.; — 1897, Dr Raoul Lacronique, plaquette, 90 mill.; — Valentine Lacronique, plaquette, 90 mill., and 45 X 65 mill.; — 1898, Joan of Arc, Jubilee at Orleans, plaquette, 90 mill. ; — Paul Leroy, President of the Law Courts at Orleans, plaquette, 90 mill. ; — Charles Franquet, plaquette, 90 mill.; — 1899, Emperor Francis Joseph I., medal and plaquette, 90 mill.; — Laura, Prize-Regatta in Brittany, 60 mill., — Louis Dupressoir, Advocate, Portrait-medal, 90 mill. (illustrated). Admiral Count de Jonqui?res, Portrait-medal, 70 mill., and plaquette, 90 mill. ; — Amélie Radis von Radiis, painter, Portraitmedal, 90 mill. ; — Marie Hellmann, prima donna, Plaquette, 70 mill. ;— H. M. Francis Joseph I., Emperor of Austria, Portraitmedal, 70 mill., and plaquette, 50 X 70 mill. ; — Charles Freund-Deschamps, Portrait-medal, 90 mill. (illustrated) ; — 1900, Bosnia- Herzegovina at the Paris Universal Exhibition, plaquette, 90 mill. ; — Moser von Charlottenfels, of Schafthausen, 25th Anniversary of the foundation of the Rhine works; — Souvenir Plaques of the Foreign commissions at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1900 (Austria, Low-Countries, Spain, etc.), 78 X 88 mill. ; — Richard Wagner, plaquette, 50 X 90 mill.; — La Philatélie, Prize-medal for the International Philatelic Exhibition, two sizes, 70 and 37 mill. ; — Madonna and Child, two sizes, 60 milI. and 20 mill. ; — H. E. Dr B. Esterle and Consort, President of the Tyrolian Law Courts, plaquette, 47 X 62 mill.; — H. E. Count A. Wolkenstein-Trostburg, Portrait-plaquette, 68 X 90 mill. ; — Prince Roland Bonaparte, plaquette 75 X 90 mill.; — Marie de Benardaky, Portrait-medal, 90 mill. ; — The Austrian Building at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1900, 80 mill. ; — Th. Favarger and consort, silver wedding, plaquette, 90 mill.; — 1901, Silver wedding of M. & Mme Freund Deschamps, 90 mill.; — Alex. Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse, seated at the piano, composing, plaquette, 90 mill. ; — Ghéry Kastrioti a Skanderbegn, Albanian Chief, 1404-1467, Portrait-medal, 130 mill.; — Dutch Souvenir Plaquette of the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1900, 55 X 88 mill., etc. Besides the above, I have also seen by Kautsch the following medals and plaquettes : P. Viardot; — Laura; — Valentine; — Heine, medal and plaquette ; — Alpine Climber (illustrated) ; — Golden wedding of M. & Mme Kulp, 19. September, 1902 ; — Golden wedding of M. & Mme Pawle; — Baron Oppel, on his Jubilee, plaquette ; — Dr Chyzer; — Medal for Merit, two sizes; — Mucha, painter, portrait-medal; — The Motor Car; — Franz von Lenbach, painter, † 1904; — Margo von Lenbach, 1904; — Female Study, Plaquette, &c. Although Kautsch has in style many points in common with the French medallists, Austrian influence is strongly marked in most of his works. "To a profound knowledge of his art he adds a very special intelligence as to decoration and an entirely fresh sense of allegory". Bibliography. — Information kindly furnished by the Artist. — Roger Marx, Médailleurs contemporains en France et á l' Etranger. — Moderne Medaiile. — A. von Loehr, Wiener Medailleure, 1902. — The Studio, XXXll, p. 254.
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
JOHN, WILLIAM GOSCOMBE
JOHN, WILLIAM GOSCOMBE (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Cardiff; Associate of the Royal Academy. “The son of the sculptural carver to the late Marquess of Bute, Mr. John early followed his father's craft ", says Mr. Spielmann. “ In 1882 he left Cardiff for London, obtained employment with Farmer and Brindley's, and attended Mr. Frith's class at Lambeth. In 1884 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but, after a successful career, he failed to secure the gold medal with his g...
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JOHN, WILLIAM GOSCOMBE (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, born at Cardiff; Associate of the Royal Academy. “The son of the sculptural carver to the late Marquess of Bute, Mr. John early followed his father's craft ", says Mr. Spielmann. “ In 1882 he left Cardiff for London, obtained employment with Farmer and Brindley's, and attended Mr. Frith's class at Lambeth. In 1884 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but, after a successful career, he failed to secure the gold medal with his g...
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JOHNSON, STEFANO
JOHNSON, STEFANO (Ital.). Die-sinking establishment at Milan, founded in 1868 by Stefano Johnson, father of the actual proprietor, Commendatore Federigo Johnson, who since 1880, has the complete direction of the Works, and who gave the firm its present importance and extension. Furnished with up-to-date machinery, a reducing-machine of the latest type and a chemical laboratory for the colouring of metals, the Johnson works are able to cope with the keenest competition inland and abroad. Not a sm...
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JOHNSON, STEFANO (Ital.). Die-sinking establishment at Milan, founded in 1868 by Stefano Johnson, father of the actual proprietor, Commendatore Federigo Johnson, who since 1880, has the complete direction of the Works, and who gave the firm its present importance and extension. Furnished with up-to-date machinery, a reducing-machine of the latest type and a chemical laboratory for the colouring of metals, the Johnson works are able to cope with the keenest competition inland and abroad. Not a sm...
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JONES, JOHN
JONES, JOHN (Brit.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, who died at Dublin, circa 1880. " He would deserve slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals trom Mossop's designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is reported to have come from Liverpool, and commenced his career by pulling the rope for Mossop's Coining press. At one period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his earnings ". The followin...
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JONES, JOHN (Brit.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, who died at Dublin, circa 1880. " He would deserve slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals trom Mossop's designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is reported to have come from Liverpool, and commenced his career by pulling the rope for Mossop's Coining press. At one period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his earnings ". The followin...
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JONGHELINCK, JACQUES
JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some ...
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JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some ...
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