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Eckhart, Johann Martin (1812-1846) |
Austrian medalist and die-engraver. Coin and medal engraver at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna during the reign of Ferdinand I. Eckhart was born in Vienna in 1812 and became a trainee engraver at the viennese mint in 1834. Together with Johann Michael Scharff he produced a medal in 1841 to commemorate the opening of the section of the southern railway from Vienna to Raab and together with Johann Baptist Roth a medal in 1845 to commemorate the third trade and industry exhibition in Vienna. Eckhart died in 1846. 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. 316, 567, 591; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) p. 1229; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists VII (1923) p. 246. |
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