MAYER, RUDOLPH (Austr.). " The revival of the Medal is arousing at the present time more interest in Germany than has hitherto been shown in this branch of art, one of whose chief exponents is Professor Rudolph Mayer, of Karlsruhe. The artist is a native of Austria, and his technical knowledge of metal-work was gained in the Art-Handicraft School (" Kunstgewerbeschule ") in Vienna. He won his first laurels at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and as a result was invited to Stuttgart as teacher of medalling in the School of Art-Handicraft there. After twelve years' teaching he went in a similar capacity through the Lehrer-collegium of the Kunstgewerbeschule at Karlsruhe, where he has now teen engaged for the past sixteen years. Apart from his teaching, he has undertaken many private commissions, particularly for embossed gold and silver vessels. For some years past, however, he has continued to indulge his old fancy for the medal and the plaquette, which was stimulated by a first prize which was awarded to him. The few medals and plaquettes reproduced here give ample proof of his ability. In addition to figures and heads are ornamental works, which, as decorative objects, became popular when issued from the minting establishment of B. H. Mayer of Pforzheim. Professor R. Mayer takes the best modern Frenchmen as his models, without directly imitating them, however. He strives to present his motive in all simplicity, with broad effects, but without disregarding detail. Therein one recognizes the accomplished ciseleur, and realises how out of the craftsman has sprung the artist. " (Studio, XXXI, pp. 81-83). Among the artist's best productions are : A Child's head (illustrated); — Schopenhauer; — Liszt (illustrated) ; — Melanchthon (after Hagenauer's medal); — Goethe; — Richard Wagner R. Walküren ; — Wilh. Lorenz (illustrated) ; — Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (plaquette); — P. Stotz (plaquette); — The Freedom of Science (plaquette, illustrated); — Medal of the School of Art Handicraft of Karlsruhe (illustrated); — Marriage of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland with Prince Henry of Mecklenburg, 1901 (illustrated); — 70th Anniversary of the Grand Duke of Baden, 1896; — Plaquette with busts of Bunsen and Pettenkofer; — Portrait-plaquette of the Artist himself (illustrated); — Medal of the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900; — Commemorative Plaquette of Wenzel Jamnitzer; — Sancta Elisabeth ; — The Oberbrunnen Spring at Bad Salzbrunn, plaquette; — Dr. Emil Fieser, plaquette; — Bismarck, commemorative plaquette, 1813-1898 ; — La Renommée, plaquette; — Baby (illustrated); — International Colonial Exhibition at Amsterdam, 1883; — 10th Anniversary of the reign of Emperor William II., 1898; — Death of Prince Bismarck, 1898 (plaquette); — 70th Birthday of King Albert of Saxony, 1898; — Martin Luther, commemorative plaquette (Vide reproduction under B. H. Mayer); — Queen Louise of Prussia; — Beethoven; — Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden, 1898; — Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina, 1898; — John Gutenberg, 5th centenary commemoration f?tes; — Philip Melanchthon; R. Melanchthon's House at Bretten ; — Philip Melanchthon, plaquette; — Inauguration of the Port of Dortmund, 1899 ; — Inauguration of the Evangelical Town Church of Pforzheim, 1899; — Plaquette; Angel holding child in her arm; — Bakery Exhibition at Pforzheim, 1900; — Europa; — Germania; — Marriage commemoration; — Orpheus ; — Christening Medal ; — Head of Christ ; — St. George Medal; — Hunting Medal ; — Head of a young girl ; — Helmeted head of Minerva ; — Virgin and Child; — St. Cecilia; — Various medals, badges, pendants, &c. with heads representing heroes from Wagner's operas : Lorelei; — Parsifal; — Tannhäuser; — Hagen ; — Isolde; Tristan; — Elizabeth; — Trika; — Seglinde; — Walter Slotting ; — Eichen; — Ortrud; — Siegfrid; — Wotan ; — Walküre ; — Gutrund ; — Lohengrin ; — Alberich ; — Schiller Festivities of 1905 (said to be the best Schiller medal issued) ; — Franz Schubert ; — Golden Wedding of Frederick and Louise of Baden, 1906; — Rembrandt, 1906 (illustrated); — 78th Congress of German Naturalists and Physicians; — Millenary of Weilburg a. d. Lahn ; — Alberich Plaquette; — Lohengrin and Else; — European Peace; — Silver Wedding Medal; — Golden Wedding of Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, 1906; — and many prize medals, plaquettes, decorative subjects suitable for badges, ornaments, pendants, brooches, &c. struck at the diesinking establishment of B. H. Mayer of Pforzheim. Some of the latest productions of the artist are reproduced in The Studio, November 1905. Commenting on Prof. Mayer's work, a writer in Moderne Medaille, 1900, p. 37 refers to the Artist's Portrait-plaquette of himself in the following terms : " Die Unmittelbarkeit, Lebenswahrheit, mit der diese Medaille uns die ganze Persönlichkeit des Meisters versinnlicht, spricht sowohl für das ausgezeichnete Talent des Künstlers, wie für die Höhe der Kunst, auf welcher er steht. Ihr Anblick zeitigt in uns den Wunsch, es möchte auch anderen Meistern des Stichels gefallen, der kunstliebenden Mitwelt ihr künstlerisches Autograph in Gestalt von Selbstportraits zu übergeben, es würde hiedurch der Kunstrichtung unserer Zeit eine Reihe von Denkmalen gesetzt werden, in welchen diese weit richtigeren Ausdruck fände, wie in so manchem unter dem Hochdruck der Mode entstandenen und mit dem ganzen Rüstzeug der modernen Anschauungen geschaffenen Werke “. Prof. Mayer prepared the models from which the 1902 coinage of Grand Duke Frederick of Baden was struck, consisting of 50,000 Five Mark pieces and 375,000 Two Marks (illustrated). These coins are amongst the best now struck. Bibliography. — Die Moderne Medaille, 1900. — The Studio, XXII, 222; XXXI, 106-108. — Dr J. H. de Dompierre de Chaufepié, op. cit. — R. Marx, Les Médailleurs modernes en France et ? l' Étranger, 1900. — Blätter für Münzfreunde, 1902-3. — Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, I, 53.
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
MARQUART, J. B. C.
MARQUART, J. B. C. (Belg.). Son of the last; studied metallurgy under his father, and was sent by the government of the Netherlands to learn medal-engraving at the Vienna Mint. Returning after a few months' stay in Austria, he went to Paris where he resided for thirteen years. We then find him filling an official post in government mining works in Hungary, and in 1764, appointed Warden of the Brussels Mint. Pinchart describes a medal by him, probably executed in Austria, of the Archduke Joseph, ...
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MARQUART, J. B. C. (Belg.). Son of the last; studied metallurgy under his father, and was sent by the government of the Netherlands to learn medal-engraving at the Vienna Mint. Returning after a few months' stay in Austria, he went to Paris where he resided for thirteen years. We then find him filling an official post in government mining works in Hungary, and in 1764, appointed Warden of the Brussels Mint. Pinchart describes a medal by him, probably executed in Austria, of the Archduke Joseph, ...
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MARRIAN AND GAUSBY
MARRIAN AND GAUSBY (Brit.). Die-sinkers of Birmingham, during the early portion of Queen Victoria's reign. They issued a series of Pattern pieces, comprising : 10, 5, 2 and 1 Cents, 1846 in Al, AR. and ? (of which many restrikes exist); — One Centum, 1846, in tin, &c. All these patterns read : MARRIAN & GAUSBY. D. BIRM. beneath the head of the Queen, and the legend on R. is : SMITH ON DECIMAL CURRENCY 1846. Bibliography. — S. M. Spink, Catalogue of Mr. Montagu's Collection of Coins from George I...
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MARRIAN AND GAUSBY (Brit.). Die-sinkers of Birmingham, during the early portion of Queen Victoria's reign. They issued a series of Pattern pieces, comprising : 10, 5, 2 and 1 Cents, 1846 in Al, AR. and ? (of which many restrikes exist); — One Centum, 1846, in tin, &c. All these patterns read : MARRIAN & GAUSBY. D. BIRM. beneath the head of the Queen, and the legend on R. is : SMITH ON DECIMAL CURRENCY 1846. Bibliography. — S. M. Spink, Catalogue of Mr. Montagu's Collection of Coins from George I...
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MARSHOORN, GERARD
MARSHOORN, GERARD (GERRIT) (Dutch.). Medallist of Haarlem, first half of the eighteenth century. His signature is found on various medals, and he worked for the Hereditary Stadholder, Willem IV. The Portrait-pieces of Lorenz J. Coster, typographer of Haarlem (1740) are his best known productions, and I have seen by him also Portrait-medals of Prince Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, 1747, on his first Stadholderate; (sev. var.) — Commemorative medals of the Treaties of Peace of Münster and Aix-la- Cha...
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MARSHOORN, GERARD (GERRIT) (Dutch.). Medallist of Haarlem, first half of the eighteenth century. His signature is found on various medals, and he worked for the Hereditary Stadholder, Willem IV. The Portrait-pieces of Lorenz J. Coster, typographer of Haarlem (1740) are his best known productions, and I have seen by him also Portrait-medals of Prince Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, 1747, on his first Stadholderate; (sev. var.) — Commemorative medals of the Treaties of Peace of Münster and Aix-la- Cha...
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MARSCHALL, RUDOLPH FERDINAND
MARSCHALL, RUDOLPH FERDINAND (Austr.). Contemporary Medallist, born at Vienna on the 3rd of December 1873 ; studied at the School of Engraving under Professors Schwarz, Schulmeister, and Zapf. In 1891 he was awarded a First Prize (silver medal) by the Commercial and Industrial Institute of Lower- Austria ; then the bronze and silver medals of the Engravers' Association, for modelling, drawing and engraving. After an absence of some duration, during which Marshall visited the principal artistic c...
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MARSCHALL, RUDOLPH FERDINAND (Austr.). Contemporary Medallist, born at Vienna on the 3rd of December 1873 ; studied at the School of Engraving under Professors Schwarz, Schulmeister, and Zapf. In 1891 he was awarded a First Prize (silver medal) by the Commercial and Industrial Institute of Lower- Austria ; then the bronze and silver medals of the Engravers' Association, for modelling, drawing and engraving. After an absence of some duration, during which Marshall visited the principal artistic c...
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