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Lerch von Lerchenau, Joseph (1793-1859) |
Medalist and die-engraver. Born in Prague in 1793 as the son of the engraver Thomas Lerch, the younger Lerch also worked at the Prague mint, where he was an engraver's assistant from 1831 and provisional engraver's assistant from 1832. From the 1850s he also worked as a mint engraver at the Karlsburg mint. Lerch von Lerchenau created a series of medals with different obverse and reverse combinations in commemoration of the coronations in Prague, which he also sold there. In 1848 he developed his own hardening method for steel. In 1849 Lerch may have been called upon to produce the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I for new coins. Lerch von Lerchenau, who worked as a private engraver, had been known to the Court Chamber in Vienna since 1836 at the latest, when he applied to make the dies for the jetons on the occasion of the Bohemian coronation. Lerch produced medals for the visit of the imperial couple to Prague in 1835 and for their coronation in Bohemia in 1836. Lerch von Lerchenau died in Prague in 1859. 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. 315-317; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) p. 1294; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists III (1907) p. 419; VII (1923) p. 550. |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/1043474110 |
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http://viaf.org/viaf/305330565 |
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