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Heuberger, Leopold (1786-07.08.1839) |
Medalist and die-engraver. Leopold Heuberger had started as an engraver-diurnist at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna in 1801. From 1804 to 1806 he was sent to the Günzburg and Schmöllnitz mints to help out, but then returned to Vienna, where he is documented in 1811 and 1813 in short-term employment at the mint. At the same time he probably worked as a private engraver. At present, all that is known about his training at the Academy of Fine Arts is that he also received prizes there. Heuberger found a special patron in Johann Baptist Harnisch, who was working as a chamber medallist at the time. Harnisch tried in vain to get him a job as a scholar medallist-engraver as early as 1819. It was not until 1825 and after Harnisch's renewed application that Heuberger was appointed as a scholar medal engraver, since in Harnisch's opinion "Heuberger [delivers] the purest work, is a correct draughtsman, has received prizes as a pupil of the local academy, is well versed in architectural landscape heraldry and ornamentation, as well as in minting coins and medals, and artfully produces all alphabets and other furnishing hallmarks". After Harnisch's death in 1826, Heuberger was entrusted with the supervision of the collection of old dies, medal impressions, props and materials. Heuberger's works mainly comprise portrait medals, such as a series on the personalities present at the Congress of Vienna or a series of one-sided portrait plaques on important persons of Vienna. Lit.: A. Mayr, Kaiser Ferdinand I. (1793-1875) und die Medaille. Die Medaillenproduktion am Hauptmünzamt in Wien zwischen 1835 und 1848 in kunsthistorischem und historischem Kontext, unpubl. phil. Diss. Vienna (2020) pp. 264-265; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) p. 1265; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists II (1904) pp. 485-486; VII (1923) p. 447. |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/137565941 |
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http://viaf.org/viaf/81740669 |
https://biographien.ac.at/ID-0.3028412-1 |
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https://doi.org/10.1553/0x00281e04 |
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