LOOS, DANIEL FRIEDRICH (Germ.). Medallist and Coin-engraver, born at Altenburg 15. January, 1735; died 1. October, 1819, at Berlin. He was a pupil of Johann Friedrich Stieler, and in 1756 went to Prussia, became Mint-engraver at Magdeburg, 1756-1767, and was appointed Chief-sngraver and Medallist to the Court at Berlin in 1768. Amongst his medallic productions I may mention : Elizabeth of York (" Souvenir Medal, engraved at the expense of a Mr. Thane, who considered that the legal representative of the House of York was entitled to a place by the side of her husband in the series of English sovereigns ". Med. Ill., I, p. 22); — Patriotic Medal On the Alliance of Russia, Austria, Prussia and Sweden against Napoleon I., 1813 ; — Marriage of the Crown Prince William Frederick of Prussia with Princess Frederica Louise Wilhelmina of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, 1793 ;— Capitulation of Amsterdam; — Peace of Teschen, 1779 ; — Death of Frederick II. the Great (1786); — Centenary of the Medical College of Berlin, 1789 (signed D. LOOS); — Victories of 1814; — The Duke of Wellington; — Wellington and Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 ; — Great Britain and Prussia giving help to the Orange refugees, 1805 ; — Wellington and Blücher ; Entry of the English and Prussians into Paris, 7th July, 1815 ; — Jubilee of Prince Leopold III. (Frederick Francis) of Anhalt-Dessau, 1801 ; — Accession of Frederick William II., King of Prussia, 1786; — Relief of Mayence by Frederick William II. , 1793 ; — Peace of Basle, 5. April 1795; — New East Prussia renders homage to Frederick William II. , 1796; — Death of King Frederick William II. , 16. November 1797; — Centenary of the Palatine Colony at Magdeburg, 1789 (obv. by Friedrich Loos) ; — Visit of King Fred. William III. and his Queen to Tarnowitz in Silesia, 1798; — Retaking of Frankfort-on-M. by Prussian and Hessian troops, 1792; — Assassination of Louis XVI., 1794 (sev. var.); — Trial of Marie-Antoinette, 1793 (sev. var.); — Memorial Medal of Madame Elizabeth (sev. var.); — The Children of Louis XVI., 1794 (sev. var.); — Death of Louis, second son of Louis XVI., 8. June 1795 ; -— Memorial medal of the Dauphin, Louis Charfes of France, 1795 (sev. var.); — Proclamation of King Frederick William III. at Koenigsberg and Berlin, 1798 (illustrated); — Life Saving Medal, with bust of Fred. Will. III.; — Proclamation Medal of the annexed provinces, Hildesheim, 1803 ; — Alliance between King Fred. William III. of Prussia and Emperor Alexander I. of Russia, against Napoleon I., 1813; — Birthday of the Crown Princess of Prussia, 10. March 1774; — Birthday of Queen Louise Augusta Wilhelmina Amalia of Prussia, 1798; — Commemorative medal of the 25. June 1798; — Centenary of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1801 ; — Return of the King and Queen of Prussia to Berlin, 23. December 1809; — : Death of Queen Louise at Hohenzieritz, 19, July 1810; — Marriage of Frederick Louis Charles, Prince of Prussia, with Frederika Caroline Sophie, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 26. December 1793 ; — Birthday of Princess Sophie, 2. March 1794; — Battle of Roslau near Dessau, 29. September 1813 ; — Battle of Leipzig, 19. October 1813; — Erection of a Statue to John III. Sobiesky, King of Poland, 1789 (signed on obv. D. LOOS ond on R. F. LOOS) ; — Karl Gottlieb Anton, jurisconsult of Görlitz, 1801 ; — Karl Ludwig von Cocceji, 1802 (3 var.); — Baron Fr. Ant. von Heinitz; — Jubilee of the Church of Hirschberg, in Silesia, 1809; — Marriage of Constantin Fellner, 1802; — Raising of the Blockade of the Elbe, 1805; — Gold —en Wedding of Alexander Gontard, of Frankfort-on-Main, 1809; Commemorative Souvenir to Ladies ; — Souvenir for Faithful Services; — Medal on Conjugal Happiness; — Prize Medal for Merit; — Jubilee Medal of the Foundation of the Prussian Privy Council; — The Fischer Institute at Riga; — Prize Medal of the University of Gottingen; — Medal of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; — Visit of Dr Gall to Berlin, 1805 ; — Return of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt to Berlin, 1805 ; —Life Saving Medal ; — Small Academic Prize Medal ; — Syndicus Herrmann von Post; — Count Henry XLIX of Reuss, and his Consort ; — Von Gersdorf and Dr Anton ; — Kammerpresident von Auerswald ; — Jubilee Medal of Regierungsrat Hecht von Halberstadt; — Commemorative medal of the Erection of a monument to the slain at the Battle of Copenhagen, 1804; — Building of the Masonic Lodge at Altenburg on the Plessef — Immanuel Kant; — Hamburg's Millenary Festivals ; — Medal for " First Communion " ; — Medal for Porters, Messengers, &c. ; — Medal to commemorate pleasant Circumstances; — Medal to offer Good Wishes; — The French Almshouse at Berlin ; — Surgeon General Görcke ; — Raising of the Elbe Blockade, 1805 ; — Victory of the Prussians at Kaiserslautern, 1793; — General F. A. von Favrat, Governor of Glatz (in conjunction with F. Loos); — Görning von Berem ; — Battle of Gross-Görschen ; — Battle of Gross-Beeren ; — Battle of Hanau ; — Battle of Luchau ; — Battle of Cuim; — Battle of Katzbach ; — Battle of Dennewitz; — Battle of Leipzig-Belzig; — Battle of Leipzig; — Taking of Dresden; — Relief of Stettin, Lüneburg and Bremen; — Victories of 1814; — Countess von Ross, Amsterdam, 1814; — Dr Carl Asmund Rudolphi; — Dr Johann Goercke, Berlin ; — Dr Carl Friedrich von Kielmeyer, Stuttgart ; — Dr Lorenz Oken, Munich; — Dr Christoph Heinrich Pfaff, Stuttgart, — Medal of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Hamburg; — Recovery of Queen Louise of Prussia, 1798; — Dr Bremer, of Berlin ; — Dr Johann David Lange, of Lithuania, 1811 ; — Dr Michael Skjelderup, of Christiania ; — Peace of Basle, 5. April 1795 (2 var.); — Medal of Leopold Friedrich Franz, Duke of Anhalt; R DER TREUEN BÜRGER LIEBE, WAND DANKBAR DIESEN KRANZ, 1808; — Field Marshal Charles Philip of Schwarzenberg, 1771 † 1820; — Golden Wedding of Christian Frederick, Count of Stolberg, and his consort Auguste Eleonore, 1818. Many of the coins engraved by D. F. Loos of Frederick William II. and III. are signed : L ; thus Double and Single Fredericks d'or, &c., Thalers, Half Thalers and subsidiary currency, &c. , of various dates between 1786 and 1813. " Loos “, observes Bolzenthal, " was a diligent artist and was assisted by his talented son, who, alas! too soon ended his life. To these two artists and Abrahamson belong the merit of having, in a time of bad taste, applied themselves to the study of portraiture and ancient types. The elder Loos had made himself known by various discoveries in the art of striking and was an inventor in the mechanism of coining. He formed two pupils, Koenig, and Stierle, by whom he was surpassed, especially by the latter. “ On the 1. May 1816, D. F. Loos had been serving the Prussian government for sixty years. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Franks & Grueber, op. cit. — Dr. F. P. Weber, English Medals by foreign Artists. — Menadier, Schaumünzen des Hauses Hohen^pllern, 1901. — Friedensburg u. Seger, Schlesiens M&nren und Medaillen der neueren Zeit, Breslau, 1901. — Paul Joseph u. Eduard Fellner, Die Münzen von Frankfurt-am-Main, 1896. — Nagler, op. cit. — Tobler-Meyer, op. cit.
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
LEROY, HIPPOLYTE
LEROY, HIPPOLYTE (Belg.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, residing at Ghent, where he was born on 4. April 1857. He is the recipient of various distinctions at national and foreign exhibitions. Of late years he has produced numerous medals, among which the most remarkable are : Queen Wilhelmina of Holland ; — Visit of Prince and Princess Albert of Belgium to Ghent; — Provincial Exhibition at Ghent, 1899 ; — Portrait-medal of King Leopold II.; — Princess Albert of Belgium ; — Agricultural Sh...
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LEROY, HIPPOLYTE (Belg.). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, residing at Ghent, where he was born on 4. April 1857. He is the recipient of various distinctions at national and foreign exhibitions. Of late years he has produced numerous medals, among which the most remarkable are : Queen Wilhelmina of Holland ; — Visit of Prince and Princess Albert of Belgium to Ghent; — Provincial Exhibition at Ghent, 1899 ; — Portrait-medal of King Leopold II.; — Princess Albert of Belgium ; — Agricultural Sh...
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LESSER, KARL
LESSER, KARL (Germ.). Medallist of the first half of the nineteenth century ; born in 1783 ; resided at Breslau, where he died, 27. September 1849. He was the last official to hold the post of Medallist to the Mint at Breslau, and was appointed in 1812. He is the author of several commemorative medals relating to the Royal House of Prussia ; one of the best known was struck on the Visit to Breslau of Nicholas I. of Russia and Frederick William III. of Prussia ; also : Portrait-medal of Dr Elias ...
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LESSER, KARL (Germ.). Medallist of the first half of the nineteenth century ; born in 1783 ; resided at Breslau, where he died, 27. September 1849. He was the last official to hold the post of Medallist to the Mint at Breslau, and was appointed in 1812. He is the author of several commemorative medals relating to the Royal House of Prussia ; one of the best known was struck on the Visit to Breslau of Nicholas I. of Russia and Frederick William III. of Prussia ; also : Portrait-medal of Dr Elias ...
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LEUKIOS
LEUKIOS (LUCIUS). This Gem-engraver's signature, which occurs on a carnelian of the former Stosch collection, and represents a Winged Nike in biga galloping, appears authentic to most critics (illustrated), and Prof. Furtwängler does not express any doubt about it. He says : "Die Arbeit ist ganz reizend frisch und lebendig, ohne allzuviel Detail, ganz in der Art des Aulus und seines Viergespanns ". According to King, this signature has been added, also on other gems : Masque of a bearded Faun (G...
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LEUKIOS (LUCIUS). This Gem-engraver's signature, which occurs on a carnelian of the former Stosch collection, and represents a Winged Nike in biga galloping, appears authentic to most critics (illustrated), and Prof. Furtwängler does not express any doubt about it. He says : "Die Arbeit ist ganz reizend frisch und lebendig, ohne allzuviel Detail, ganz in der Art des Aulus und seines Viergespanns ". According to King, this signature has been added, also on other gems : Masque of a bearded Faun (G...
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LÉVÉQUE, PIERRE
LÉVÉQUE, PIERRE (French). Sculptor and Die-sinker at Paris, Palais Royal; born at Beauvais in 1780; died at Passy in 1845. One of his daughters married the celebrated engraver L. Ch. Bouvet. He is said to have cut several medals commemorating the Revolution of July 1830. By him are also Portrait-medals : Giuseppe Blangini, Italian composer (signed : LEVEQUE SC) ; — Rev. J. C. Lavater (3 var.); — Birth of Louise Marie Thér?se de France, 1819, etc., and Jetons : Mines de charbon, Dep du Nord. — So...
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LÉVÉQUE, PIERRE (French). Sculptor and Die-sinker at Paris, Palais Royal; born at Beauvais in 1780; died at Passy in 1845. One of his daughters married the celebrated engraver L. Ch. Bouvet. He is said to have cut several medals commemorating the Revolution of July 1830. By him are also Portrait-medals : Giuseppe Blangini, Italian composer (signed : LEVEQUE SC) ; — Rev. J. C. Lavater (3 var.); — Birth of Louise Marie Thér?se de France, 1819, etc., and Jetons : Mines de charbon, Dep du Nord. — So...
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