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Zeichner, Franz (1778-1862) |
Austrian medalist and die-engraver. Coin and medal engraver at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna, Zeichner was involved as an engraver in the production of the tokens for the coronation in Hungary in 1830. Together with Ignaz Rosner he worked, among other things, on the distribution and ejection jetons for the Hungarian coronation of 1830 and with Joseph Daniel Böhm in 1839 on the medal for the new mint building on the Heumarkt in Vienna (reverse). 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) p. 314; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) pp. 1374-1375; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists VI (1916) pp. 724-725. |
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