LOOS, GOTTFRIED BERNHARD (Germ.). Second son of Daniel F. Loos, born 6. August 1774, and died 29. July 1843; Mintmaster at Berlin, 1806-1812; General Warden to the Prussian Mint, etc. In 1812 he opened the famous Die-sinking establishment of Loos at Berlin, which produced a large number of medals, and employed some of the best German medallists.The medallic establishment which he founded now exists as the "Berlin Medallic Mint of L. Ostermann (q.v.), formerly G. Loos." There are medals with the portraits of G. Loos and his father D. F. Loos made by C. Pfeuffer and Goetze respectively. G. Loos is the author of a work on the art of detecting forgeries. It is not possible to enumerate all the productions of the Loos Works, and I shall content myself with mentioning a few of the best known or more important ones : Portrait-medal of Augusta, Princess of Liegnitz (engraved by Gube); — Marriage of Crown-Prince Maximilian of Bavaria with Mary, Princess Royal of Prussia, 5 Oct. 1832 (König) ; — Marriage of Charles, Prince of Hesse, with Princess Elizabeth of Prussia, 1836 (F. König); — Inauguration of the Railway from St. Petersburg to Paulovsk, 1837 (by König); — Third Centenary of the Incorporation of Pomerania into Prussia, 1821 ; — Carlo Spontini ; — Rebuilding of the town of Gnesen, burnt down in 1819, 1823 (F. König); — Inauguration of the Frederick the Great Memorial at Berlin, 1851; — Marriage of the Crown-Prince Frederick William of Prussia with Princess Elizabeth Louise of Bavaria, 29. November 1823 ; — Prince Frederick William Louis of Prussia (afterwards William I.) joins the Freemasons and is elected Patron of the Prussian Lodges, 1840 (by H. Lorentz) ; — Railway Congress at Breslau, 1855 ; — 25th Anniversary of the Cologne " Dombauverein ", 1867 ; — Marriage of Prince William (I.) with Princess Augusta of Saxony, 11. June 1829 (C. Pfeuffer); — Memorial Medal of the city of Coblence of the Marriage of the Crown-Prince William, 1829; with busts conjoined on obv. (engraved by Bubert) ; — Entry of George IV. into Hanover, 1821 (engraved by C. Voigt); — Peace of Paris, 1856, after the Crimean War (W. Kullrich); — Marriage of the Princess Royal of England with the Crown-Prince of Prussia, 1858 (W. Kullrich); — Richard Cobden; on his death, 1865, and Jubilee of the European Peace of 1815 (E.Weigand); — Marriage of Crown- Prince William of Prussia, with Princess Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein, 27. February 1881 ; — Birth of Prince William, 6. May 1882 (W. Kullrich); — Inauguration of the Gnadenkirche at Berlin, 1895 ; — Inauguration of the Emperor Frederick Memorial Church at Berlin, 1895 ; — The Russian Camp at Kalisch, 1835 ; with busts of Nicholas I. of Russia and Fred. William III. of Prussia; — Death of Prince Charles of Prussia, 21. January 1883; — Marriage of Prince Charles of Prussia with Princess Mary of Saxony, 26. May 1827 (H. Gube) ; — Prize Medal of the Exhibition of Wittstock, 1885, with bust of Princess Mary Anne of Prussia; — Marriage of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, with Princess Louise Augusta Wilhelmina of Prussia, 21. May 1825 ; — Marriage of Prince Albrecht of Prussia, with Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, at the Hague, 14. September 1830 ; — 50 years' Jubilee of Emanuel von Schimonski's priesthood, 1825 ; — Karl Theophil Anton, Rector of Görlitz, 1853 (Bubert) ; — Battle of Brienne, 1814 (Stettner); — La Belle Alliance, 1815 (busts of Wellington and Blücher); — Prince Blücher von Wahlstadt (sev. var.); — Johann von Diebitsch, Russian general, 1829 (Pfeuffer) ; — 90th Birthday of Field Marshal Count von Moltke, 1890 (A. Krüger) ; — Robert Schaerff, of Brieg, † 1880 (Kullrich) ; — Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher, theologian, 1834 (Held) ; — Centenary of Schleiermacher, 1868 ; — Johann Steinbeck, of Breslau, 1819 ; C.F.H., Count von Wylich u. Lottum, of Lissa, 1834 (König); — Field Marshal Hans Ludwig, Count York von Wartenburg, † 1830; — Commercial Employés' Institute of Breslau, 1824 (H. Gube); — The Breslau Lodge of the Golden Sceptre, 1826 (Gube); — Marriage Medal of H. von Deckens, with Louise Gerhard, 1828 (Gube) ; — The Cholera Epidemics at Breslau, 1832 (C. Pfeuffer); — Congress of Physicians at Breslau, 1833 (C. Pfeuffer) ;— Visit of King Fred. William III. to Görlitz, in Silesia, 1835 (F. Koenig); — Agricultural Congress at Breslau, 1845 ; — Society of the Twelve, Breslau, 1846 (Schilling); — Badge of Riflemen of Neisse, 1850; — Second Centenary of the Friedenskirche at Schweidnitz, 1852; — Agricultural Show at Liegnitz, 1854; — Meeting of Represen tatives of the German Railway Companies, at Breslau, 1855; — Riflemen's badge of Breslau, 1856; — 260th Anniversary of the Rifle Brigade of Oels, 1860 ; — Rebuilding of the Town Hall of Frankenstein, Silesia, 1861 ; — 50th Anniversary of the Rifle Club of Gleiwitz, 1862; — The new Evangelical Church at Charlottenbrun, 1863 ; — Agricultural Show at Liegnitz, 1863 ; — Agricultural Show at Lauban, 1864; — Rifle Meeting at Peiskretchau, 1866; — Congress of Agriculturists, at Breslau, 1869; — Rifle Club badge of Brieg, 1874; — Rifle Club badge of Kanth, 1874; — Agricultural Exhibition at Oels, 1874 (2 var.); — Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition at Lauban, 1875; — Provincial Rifle Meeting at Glogau (1876); — Agricultural Exhibition at Neisse- Grottkau, 1876; — Congress of Butchers, Breslau, 1879; — Agricultural Exhibition at Liegnitz, 1880; — Patriotic Society of Oels, 1884; — Agricultural Society Medal of Löwenberg, 1892 ; — 25th Anniversary of Rybnik, 1893 ; — Agricultural Exhibition at Gleiwitz, 1898; — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1826 (F. Koenig); — Samuel Thomas von Soemmering, 1828 (C. Pfeuffer) ; — Edward Rüppell, 1828 (C. Pfeuffer); — Third Centenary of the Dutch community at Frankfort-on-M., 1885 (G. Kaupert inv.; O. Schulte F.) ; — Third Centenary of the Augsburg Confession, 1830 (C. Pfeuffer); — Medical College of Berlin, 1819 ; — Dr J. J. Berzelius, of Stockholm ; — Dr G. F. von Adelmann, of Fulda; — Dr J. H. Barth, of Hamburg; — Dr Blumenbach, of Göttingen (sev. var.); — Count Dr Ellenberger; — Goethe (sev. var.); — Dr Carl F. von Graefe, of Berlin ; — Dr D. E. Gunther, of Duisburg; — Dr C. G. Hagen, of Koenigsberg (2 var.) ; — Dr Christoph Knape, of Berlin (2 var.); — Dr J. C. H. Meyer, of Berlin; — Dr H.W.M. Olbers, physician and archaeologist of Bremen; — Dr J. C. Reil, of Berlin; — Dr E. Rueppell, of Frankfort-on-M. ; — Schiller (3 var.); — Dr S. J. von Soemmering, of Frankfort-on- M. (2 var.) ; — Dr J. Wendt, of Breslau (2 var.) ; — Hamburg Hospital, 1823 ; — Prussian Geneva Cross Society, 1873 ; — German Congress of Naturalists and Physicians, Hamburg, 1830; — German Congress of Naturalists and Physicians, Breslau, 1833 ; — Vaccination in Prussia ; — Dr Balthazar Kaufmann ; — Daniel Friedrich Loos ; — Lorenz Oken (really Okenfuss), a famous naturalist, 1779-1851 (by Koenig); — Martin Luther; R. Zwingli and Melanchthon, Jubilee of the Reformation, 1817; — Death of King Frederick William III., 1840 (by König) ; — Golden Wedding of Count and Countess Christian Frederick of Stolberg, 1818; — Death of Francis I., Austrian Emperor, 1835 (by König); — Clement Wenceslaus Lothaire, Prince Metternich, 1835 (by Held); — Charles, Prince of Schwarzenberg ; — 11th Centenary of the discovery of the Teplitz Springs, 1862 ; — Jewel of the Lodge of the Golden Lion of Dantzig ; — Semi-centennial celebration of the Freemasons of the Lodge of the Three Gavels, Halberstadt (by Schilling) ; — Centennial celebration of the Lodge, Ferdinand of Felicity, Magdeburg, 1861 ; — Charles, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, † 1816; — Christian Charles Fred. William, Baron von Nettelbladt, † 1843 ; — Mecklenburg's first Masonic Lodge, founded at Schwerin, 1854; — Inauguration of a Monument to Frederick the Great, 1840; — The Lodge Archimedes of the Three Trestle Boards, Altenburg ; — Johann Wilhelm Ellenberger (von Zinnendorf), 1826 ; — Dr Ehmsben, of Osnabruck, 1827; — Frederick, Prince and Heir of the kingdom of Prussia, received into the Order of Free Masons, 1838 ; — John Michael Palmie, of Berlin, 1840 (by C. Pfeuffer) ; — Frederick William Louis, Prince of Prussia, initiated into the Order of Freemasons, Berlin, 1840 (by Lorenz); — Frederick II., founder of Freemasonry at Berlin, centennial medal, 1840; — William Louis Victor, Count Henckel von Donnersmarck, 1841, etc. J. E. Bennert describes six Portrait-medals of Prince Bismarck, struck to commemorate various events of his life (Bismarck- Medaillen, 1904), and issued at the Loos Mint. Among the more important medallists who worked for the Loos Medal Mint and whose signature occurs in connection with that of G. LOOS are : H. F. Brandt, of La Chaux-de-Fonds ; Friedrich König, of Berlin; Carl Preuffer, of Suhl; Ludwig Held, of Altenburg; Heinrich Gube, of Breslau ; W. Kullrich, of Berlin; G. Kaupert; Otto Schulte, and others. The founder, Gottfried Loos, who died in 1843, was succeeded as Director by L. Ostermann, 1843-1879; Emil Krüger, 1879- 1895 ; and Arthur Krüger, since 1895. Bibliography. — As above. — E. Fiala, op. cit. — Marvin, Masonic Medals, Boston, 1880.
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
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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LEVICK, RUBY
LEVICK, RUBY (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor, residing in London, who at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1899 showed a Portrait-medallion of W. B. Rickman. "Miss Levick", says Mr. Spielmann in British Sculpture and Sculptors of to-day", who first exhibited at the Academy in 1893, seems to have made a special study of youth at sport. Her admirably arranged bronze statuette-groups of " Boys fishing", " Boys wrestling " and " Foot-ball " are all clever and well modelled; the last named composition i...
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LEVICK, RUBY (Brit.). Contemporary Sculptor, residing in London, who at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1899 showed a Portrait-medallion of W. B. Rickman. "Miss Levick", says Mr. Spielmann in British Sculpture and Sculptors of to-day", who first exhibited at the Academy in 1893, seems to have made a special study of youth at sport. Her admirably arranged bronze statuette-groups of " Boys fishing", " Boys wrestling " and " Foot-ball " are all clever and well modelled; the last named composition i...
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