KNOPF, HEINRICH (Germ.). Goldsmith and Wax-modeller of Nuremberg, in the early part ot the seventeenth century, circa 1601- 1610. In contemporary documents he is styled " Conterfeter in Wachs". In 1601 he executed a medal of the Bishop of Bamberg, Johann Philipp von Gebsattel (illustrated), and received for the model and moulds 70 florins. These medals, observes Erman, were cast, as they were wanted, in the following years, by Knopf himself and the Bamberg Goldsmiths Paul Imhot, Marx Goldschmid, and Barthel Holstein. In 1610 Knopf made the medal (Schaugroschen) of the Bishop of Bamberg, Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen. The castings of these in later years were done by Knopf himself, or Heinrich Scheurer, and Barthol. Holstein. In 1611 Knopf executed also a medal with shield of arms and the Emperor Henry and his consort Kunigunda. The medals by Knopf are somewhat weak productions, oval in shape, and of very low relief. Both specimens in the Royal Museum at Berlin have the same bordering, which Erman has met with on another enamelled medal of the Bishop, Duke Ulrich of Pomerania, dated 1618, which bears no portrait, only arms, but which may notwithstanding have been done by Knopf. Knopf, like most of his contemporaries, as Valentin Maler, Carl, etc., first modelled their medals in wax. A Portrait-medal of Wolf Müntzer of Babenberg is signed H. K. and dated 1567, but Erman does not think it can be ascribed to Knopf, as the style is absolutely different from his. Bibliography. — Erman, Deutsche Medailleure, pp. 9, 54, 76.
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
KARL, HEINRICH
KARL, HEINRICH (Austr.). Medallist at Vienna, first half of the nineteenth century. His signature occurs on the following medals : Battle of Leipzig, 1813 ; — Prize Medal of the Oswald School at Mautern, 1803; — Prize Medal of the English Young Ladies' Boarding School at St. Pölten, 1816; — Visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph I. to Nagy-Banya, 1852 ; — X. Congress of Hungarian Physicians at Neusohl, 1842 (In Boston Coll), etc. His usual signature was H. K. F. Bibliography. — Katalog der Münzen u...
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KARL, HEINRICH (Austr.). Medallist at Vienna, first half of the nineteenth century. His signature occurs on the following medals : Battle of Leipzig, 1813 ; — Prize Medal of the Oswald School at Mautern, 1803; — Prize Medal of the English Young Ladies' Boarding School at St. Pölten, 1816; — Visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph I. to Nagy-Banya, 1852 ; — X. Congress of Hungarian Physicians at Neusohl, 1842 (In Boston Coll), etc. His usual signature was H. K. F. Bibliography. — Katalog der Münzen u...
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KARLSTEEN, ARFVID
KARLSTEEN, ARFVID (Swede). (1654-1718). Vide Vol. I, p. 212. We read in Bolzenthal, p. 237 : " The Court of Stockholm employed an artist, Arvid Karlsten, who in his time received excessive distinction. Born at Karlskoga in Vermland, 1647, he had in his early youth made himself so well acquainted with the Art that he was enabled to pursue his studies in foreign countries; in Paris under Varin, and in London under John Roettier. After he had finished them, he obtained celebrity in Berlin and Dresd...
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KARLSTEEN, ARFVID (Swede). (1654-1718). Vide Vol. I, p. 212. We read in Bolzenthal, p. 237 : " The Court of Stockholm employed an artist, Arvid Karlsten, who in his time received excessive distinction. Born at Karlskoga in Vermland, 1647, he had in his early youth made himself so well acquainted with the Art that he was enabled to pursue his studies in foreign countries; in Paris under Varin, and in London under John Roettier. After he had finished them, he obtained celebrity in Berlin and Dresd...
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KAUERHASE, MATHIAS
KAUERHASE, MATHIAS (Germ.). Coin-engraver at the Breslau Mint, circa 1572-1627. He cut dies for the coinage of Ducats of the Silesian mining town of Reichstein, struck in the name of Wilhelm von Rosenberg, 1582. By this Engraver are also the following medals : The Engelhart family (2 var.), 1623 ; — Charles II. von Oels, 1615 ; — Raitpfennig of G. Rösler, 1607/9; — Basil von Sonn, Mint-master at Oels, Raitpfennig, 1612/14; — Religious Medals, EGO SVM VIA VERITAS. Bust of Christ; SALVATOR MVNDI, ...
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KAUERHASE, MATHIAS (Germ.). Coin-engraver at the Breslau Mint, circa 1572-1627. He cut dies for the coinage of Ducats of the Silesian mining town of Reichstein, struck in the name of Wilhelm von Rosenberg, 1582. By this Engraver are also the following medals : The Engelhart family (2 var.), 1623 ; — Charles II. von Oels, 1615 ; — Raitpfennig of G. Rösler, 1607/9; — Basil von Sonn, Mint-master at Oels, Raitpfennig, 1612/14; — Religious Medals, EGO SVM VIA VERITAS. Bust of Christ; SALVATOR MVNDI, ...
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KAUFMANN, HUGO
KAUFMANN, HUGO (Germ.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, residing at Munich. One of his finest medallic productions is the official medal issued by the city of Frankfort-on-M. to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Goethe (illustrated) ; — another celebrates the Centenary of the " Elisabethen-und Musterschule "; — and a Plaquette, struck in 1903, on the 25th Anniversary of Dr Hoch's Conservatorium bears the heads of Joachim Raff and Prof. Bernhard Scholz. His Portrait-medal of Arnold Böckli...
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KAUFMANN, HUGO (Germ.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, residing at Munich. One of his finest medallic productions is the official medal issued by the city of Frankfort-on-M. to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Goethe (illustrated) ; — another celebrates the Centenary of the " Elisabethen-und Musterschule "; — and a Plaquette, struck in 1903, on the 25th Anniversary of Dr Hoch's Conservatorium bears the heads of Joachim Raff and Prof. Bernhard Scholz. His Portrait-medal of Arnold Böckli...
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